Dax Pryce
Senior Software Engineer Manager at Microsoft
Bainbridge Island, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolDax Pryce is a senior software engineering manager with over a decade of experience building and leading engineering teams at Microsoft and earlier defense and consumer web companies. Based on a foundation in computer science from the University of Pittsburgh, he has moved from hands-on staff engineering roles into leadership, currently combining management with active engineering at Microsoft Research. His open-source contributions include focused test automation and reliability improvements for graph analytics tooling (graspologic), demonstrating an attention to quality and developer experience that improves debugging and CI reliability. Comfortable across research and production environments, he has a track record of shipping robust systems in both constrained defense contexts and large-scale consumer platforms. Colocated on Bainbridge Island, WA, he brings a pragmatic blend of technical rigor, mentorship, and a knack for turning edge-case tests into long-term engineering value.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Pittsburgh
Github Skills (9)
statistics10
pytest10
python10
statistic10
numpy10
graphing9
data-science9
graph9
machine-learning7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
graspologic-org/graspologic
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
Python package for graph statistics
Role in this project:
Data Scientist & Software Engineer (Test Automation Focused)
Data Scientist & Software Engineer (Test Automation Focused)Contributions:264 reviews, 119 commits, 155 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Dax primarily contributed to the testing infrastructure and unit tests within the graspologic repository, modifying existing tests and adding new ones. Their work included expanding test coverage for the omni module, ensuring correct behavior and expected outputs. The user also addressed issues related to test execution within IDEs, improving the debugging experience. Furthermore, they made changes related to the pipeline module and automated layouts.
statisticspythondata-sciencenetworksgraph-statistics
daxpryce/DiskANN
Feb 2022 - May 2023
Graph based indices for approximate nearest neighbor search
Contributions:7 releases, 8 PRs, 136 pushes in 1 year 2 months
graph-basednearest-neighborapproximate-nearest-neighbor-searchindicesnearest
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