Donald Thompson
Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolDonald Thompson is a Distinguished Engineer with 11+ years of senior technical leadership, currently developing cognitive AI for strategic initiatives at Microsoft after leading AI strategy and architecture at LinkedIn. He founded Maana, pioneering Computational Knowledge Graphs and a complex microservice ecosystem that powered decision support for Fortune 100 firms, and later transitioned that technology as VP of Technology at SparkCognition. His career blends deep systems engineering (from large-scale knowledge graphs at Bing to privacy-aware personalization at Microsoft Research) with product incubation across voice, wearable, and enterprise AI spaces. Known for shipping production-grade inference, reasoning, and orchestration systems in C#/C++ at internet scale, he repeatedly bridges research and engineering to deliver applied AI. Based in Redmond, he pairs a hands-on architect background with executive strategy, and his GitHub presence is modestly minimal—reflecting a focus on proprietary, high-impact systems over public code.
11 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) with distinction Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc) with distinction Computer Science at University of OxfordUniversity of California, Los Angeles
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Github Skills (91)
javascript9
linux9
database9
postgresql9
uploading9
query-builder9
plug9
mssql9
mysql9
sqlite9
nodejs9
sql-server9
mongodb9
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
maana-io/q-templates
Jan 2018 - Oct 2019
A collection of language-specific (Javascript, Python, Scala, ...) Maana Knowledge Service template projects.
Contributions:8 PRs, 39 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 8 months
service-templatepythonknowledgejavascriptscala
maana-io/gitbook
Apr 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:1 PR, 621 pushes, 8 branches in 7 months
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