James Brand
Senior Director Of Economics at Microsoft
Kirkland, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Brand is a Senior Director of Economics at Microsoft’s Office of the Chief Economist, specializing in cloud pricing and market design with a decade of applied research experience. He blends rigorous academic training (PhD in Economics, UT Austin) with product-focused collaboration across engineering and business teams to solve demand estimation and pricing challenges in cloud markets. His recent work explores flexible demand estimation methods and the use of Large Language Models for market research, and he publishes working papers and Julia packages for demand estimation on his personal site and GitHub. Based in Kirkland, WA, James has progressed through research leadership roles at Microsoft and brings a rare combination of econometric depth, open-source tooling, and practical impact on cloud monetization strategies.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Economics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Economics at The University of Texas at AustinJohns Hopkins University
Github Skills (42)
kotlin9
windows8
mvvm8
camp8
android7
uwp-apps5
csharp5
windows-service5
dotnet5
keras4
dotnet-core4
mdt4
wpf4
microsoft-store4
inno-setup4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/MTC_WindowsSmartInk
Aug 2018 - Oct 2021
Windows SmartInk Sample
Contributions:170 commits, 58 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
windows
microsoft/MTC_AMP
Aug 2017 - Apr 2022
Another MVVM Project
Contributions:22 commits, 14 pushes in 4 years 9 months
kotlinmvvmandroid
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