James Codella
Principal Product Manager at Microsoft
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJames Codella is a Principal Product Manager at Microsoft in New York, specializing in NoSQL query and AI for Azure Cosmos DB with a strong background in building data-driven AI services. He has transitioned from technical program management of mixed reality telemetry to product leadership on Azure Personalizer and Cosmos DB query/AI features, blending systems reliability, ML research, and product strategy. With a PhD in Operations Research and prior IBM research roles producing publications and patents, he brings rigorous analytical thinking to product decisions. His work frequently sits at the intersection of large-scale telemetry, reinforcement learning, and database query optimization—helping teams turn complex operational data into actionable intelligence. Despite a relatively compact product-management tenure, he couples deep academic rigor with hands-on engineering and metrics-driven delivery.
4 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Operations Research, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Operations Research at University of Wisconsin-MadisonB.S. Operations Research & Information Engineering, B.S. Operations Research & Information Engineering at Cornell University
Github Skills (20)
microsoft10
microsoft-azure10
azure10
sdk7
csharp6
dotnet6
dotnet-core5
vector5
similarity5
cognitive-services5
chatgpt4
machine-learning4
cosine-similarity4
postgresql3
approximate-nearest-neighbor-search3
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/AzureDataRetrievalAugmentedGenerationSamples
Aug 2023 - Jan 2025
Contributions:2 reviews, 29 PRs, 26 pushes in 1 year 5 months
jcodella/azure-docs
Jul 2022 - Jul 2023
Open source documentation of Microsoft Azure
Contributions:5 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year
azuremicrosoft-azuremicrosoft
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