James Cadd
Senior Product Manager at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJames Cadd is a Senior Product Manager at Microsoft leading Calling & Teams Phone in Azure Communication Services, translating decades of real-time communications and developer engagement experience into product strategy and roadmaps for contact center and customer engagement solutions. Based in Seattle, he combines deep technical roots—from early .NET, Silverlight and Windows Phone development to modern Azure developer platforms—with a talent for empathizing with CTOs and engineering teams to remove integration friction. Over 11+ years at Microsoft he has progressed from hands-on software roles to strategic product leadership, shaping developer platforms that prioritize scalability and developer experience. Notably, his background in both client and developer platform roles gives him a rare perspective on aligning UX, SDKs, and cloud services to drive adoption and “customer love.”
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
University of Florida
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
webrtc-uwp/webrtc-uwp.github.io
Feb 2019 - Apr 2019
Website for WebRTC UWP project
Contributions:21 commits, 14 PRs, 21 pushes in 2 months
uwpwebrtc
microsoft/WebRTC-universal-samples
Jan 2017 - Feb 2019
WebRTC samples for the Universal Windows Platform.
Contributions:19 commits, 5 PRs, 19 pushes in 2 years 1 month
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