Bill Bliss
Venture Partner at Greatscale Ventures
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolBill Bliss is a veteran technology leader and venture partner based in Seattle with a multi-decade track record of founding and scaling major consumer and enterprise products, including early Microsoft Outlook and the Microsoft Teams developer platform. He blends deep platform architecture expertise with product and business leadership—from launching MSN Search and high‑scale recommendation systems at Myspace to leading product strategy at Expedia and VMware. Known for translating complex technical architectures into practical roadmaps, he has repeatedly built developer platforms and metadata/search infrastructure that enabled large-scale user experiences. Now advising startups through GreatScale Ventures, he brings a rare combination of hands-on engineering, product management, and turnaround experience, plus a knack for “cat herding” cross-disciplinary teams to deliver measurable impact.
9 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Northwestern University
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Github Skills (133)
devrel10
bots10
invoke10
rest-api10
msal10
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rest10
powershell10
azure-ad-b2c10
graph10
inline10
skype10
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
OfficeDev/msteams-samples-outgoing-webhook-nodejs
Dec 2017 - Jul 2019
A very simple example of an "Outgoing webhook" server that echoes whatever is sent to it
Contributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 1 year 8 months
microsoft-teamswebhook-serverwebhookoffice365webhooks
MicrosoftDocs/OfficeDocs-AppCompliance
Apr 2019 - May 2019
Content for Office app certification and compliance
Contributions:27 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 19 days
for-officecertificationcompliancemvldocsnoncore
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