Dave Lambert
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Bellevue, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolDave Lambert is a software engineer with 19 years of experience specializing in knowledge representation and distributed systems, currently improving data quality for Bing Local Search at Microsoft. He holds a PhD in Informatics from the University of Edinburgh and has a strong research background building semantic Web services, rule-based systems, and semantic middleware (notably the Internet Reasoning Service and OCML). His work spans academia and industry—from designing ontology-driven service invocation that handles RPC and REST uniformly to deploying practical tools like a browser-based video annotation system integrating real Web services. Early projects include embedded and networking systems for naval communications and accelerator optimization at CERN, reflecting a knack for applying formal methods to real-world, high-stakes systems. He combines deep semantic-web expertise with production-scale engineering, making him effective at bridging research prototypes into operational services.
19 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Informatics, PhD, Informatics at The University of EdinburghBSc (Hons), Computer Science, BSc (Hons), Computer Science at University of Strathclyde
Github Skills (16)
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image-viewer8
photo-browser8
photography6
google-app-engine5
hadoop3
clojure3
backend2
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javascript2
browser1
emacs1
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common-lisp1
nodejs1
Programming languages (4)
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