James Tooles
Chief Architect, Office Of The CTO at Microsoft
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJames Tooles is a strategic technology leader and Chief Architect at Microsoft’s Office of the CTO, blending hands-on engineering with enterprise-scale architecture to accelerate AI and cloud initiatives. Previously, he founded Alembic 200 Inc as CTO and led Azure AI efforts at Microsoft, including program management for a new Azure AI service and contributions to Azure Video Indexer with Scenes, Shots, and keyframes. Based in New York, he holds a Bachelor’s in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the University of Central Florida, anchoring his work in strong hardware-software foundations. His career spans roles from data analyst and classroom mentor to cloud solution architect, with a track record of delivering scalable data analytics and AI solutions for Fortune 500 customers in media, entertainment, and telecommunications. A lifelong learner and empowerment advocate, he designs systems that move ideas from concept to production while mentoring teams and driving cross-functional collaboration.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Central Florida
EnglishProgramming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Boykai/octo-microhack-rag-ai-and-your-data
Nov 2024 - Mar 2025
Hands-on Microhack created by Microsoft Office of the CTO Americas, focused on RAG AI.
Contributions:26 PRs, 23 pushes, 25 branches in 3 months
Boykai/Project-3-Wrangle-OpenStreetMap-Dataset
Jan 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:64 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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