Summary
David Pond is a Senior Product Manager and Responsible AI incident manager with eight years of product-focused experience and over three decades at Microsoft across engineering, privacy, and operations roles. He specializes in identifying, triaging, and remediating AI and privacy incidents by partnering with engineering, governance, and security teams to build sustainable processes that improve safety, transparency, and accountability. A former senior software engineer and telemetry lead, he brings deep data-pipeline, telemetry, and experimentation expertise to inform risk decisions and drive rapid, evidence-based remediation. He holds certification as an Information Privacy Technologist and routinely integrates privacy compliance into product escalation workflows. Based in Yakima, Washington, David blends operational rigor with a long history of hands-on testing, automation, and data-driven decision making—an unusual combination that helps turn ethical AI principles into practical, auditable practices.
8 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer