Summary
Cole Taylor is a Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft with a decade of experience building globally-distributed, highly reliable services and production ML inference platforms for the Power Platform and Dynamics. He combines deep systems and backend engineering—designing low-latency inferencing for models from boosted trees to large transformers—with a passion for making AI accessible to citizen developers through features like adaptive cards in Power Apps. His work spans end-to-end testing frameworks, API design, real-time data aggregation, and operational reliability, informed by early hands-on roles in telemetry and large-scale data processing. Based in Bellevue, WA, Cole blends research-minded optimization from supercomputing internships with pragmatic product delivery at scale, and he has a track record of translating complex ML workloads into cost- and latency-optimized production services.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science with Focus in Intelligence and Information Internetworks, Computer Science, Junior, B.S., Computer Science with Focus in Intelligence and Information Internetworks, Computer Science, Junior at Georgia Institute of Technology
Computer Science, Dual Enrollment, Computer Science, Dual Enrollment at Wittenberg University
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Nightingale Montessori
Japanese