Drew Robbins
Principal AI Architect, Office Of The CTO, Microsoft Asia
Hayama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolDrew Robbins is a Principal AI Architect in Microsoft Asia’s Office of the CTO with over two decades of global engineering and leadership experience building cloud-native, production-grade systems. He specializes in making generative AI more reliable, observable, and performant, and helped co-found OpenTelemetry semantic conventions for Generative AI to establish industry monitoring standards. Drew combines hands-on prototyping and customer-facing engineering to accelerate AI adoption for strategic enterprises, from retail to aerospace. He has a proven track record of scaling teams across the U.S., Japan, and India while coaching engineers into influential leaders. An active open-source contributor, his work improving tracing and observability in projects like Dapr reflects a pragmatic focus on operational excellence. He’s also the author of a leadership book and emphasizes small, intentional choices as the core of sustainable career growth.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at The Ohio State University
Japanese, English
Github Skills (15)
distributed-tracing10
http10
go10
testing10
kafka3
blob-storage3
sql-server3
aws-sqs-fifo3
cosmosdb3
amazon-sns3
mongodb-database3
amazon-sqs3
redis3
eventhub3
mongodb3
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
dapr/components-contrib
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
Community driven, reusable components for distributed apps
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 5 commits, 2 PRs in 4 days
Contributions summary:Drew's contributions primarily involve modifying the HTTP binding component within the Dapr components-contrib repository. They have focused on adding and removing trace header functionality, which includes integrating traceparent and tracestate headers for distributed tracing. Their work also includes updates to test cases related to HTTP bindings. These changes suggest a focus on improving the observability and tracing capabilities of the HTTP binding component.
sqlserverevent-hubscommunity-drivenmongodbcosmos-db
drewby/win10Challenge
Jun 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:35 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 27 days
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.