Jim Bennett
Principal Developer Experience Engineer at Arize AI
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJim Bennett is a Principal Developer Experience Engineer with 12+ years of cross-continental experience building developer tools, IoT systems, and AI-first developer experiences from Redmond. He blends deep hands-on engineering—from embedded PyPortal/Azure integrations and Raspberry Pi/C++ device work to full-stack web apps and TypeScript/Python agent systems—with developer advocacy, product documentation, and community building at companies including Microsoft, Galileo, and Arize AI. A Microsoft MVP for AI and Developer Tools, he’s authored IoT curricula used widely (IoT for Beginners) and contributed to prominent Microsoft educational repos that ship workshops on face detection, Azure IoT Central, and VuePress documentation deployments. Jim is equally at home prototyping multi-agent LLM systems and running eval engineering training as he is mentoring small dev-rel teams and driving product feedback loops that materially boost onboarding. Quirky and energetic, his background in chemistry-turned-software gives him a practical, experimental approach to reliability and observability in AI systems.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
MChem in Computer-Aided-Chemistry, Chemistry, Programming, Molecular modelling, MChem in Computer-Aided-Chemistry, Chemistry, Programming, Molecular modelling at University of Surrey
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Github Skills (44)
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azure-cognitive-services10
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html10
embedded10
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Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/IoT-For-Beginners
May 2021 - Dec 2022
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:158 reviews, 96 commits, 152 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Jim's contributions primarily involve implementing and modifying code across various lessons within the "iot-for-beginners" repository. They have worked on code examples for sensors, actuators, internet connectivity, and speech recognition. The user's commits include changes to Python scripts for Raspberry Pi and virtual devices, as well as C++ code for Wio Terminal devices, indicating a focus on IoT device development and cloud integration. They also touched on Azure services integration, further demonstrating a comprehensive skill set.
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microsoft/AcademicContent
Nov 2018 - May 2022
Free tech resources for faculty, students, researchers, life-long learners, and academic community builders for use in tech based courses, workshops, and hackathons.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 109 commits, 67 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Jim primarily contributed to the creation of a web application, demonstrating a strong understanding of both front-end and back-end technologies. They developed an attendee detection workshop with Flask for the backend, integrating Azure Cognitive Services for face detection, and built a front-end using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Further contributions included the creation of a "HappySadAngry" workshop with front-end code in HTML, CSS and JavaScript and server-side logic. Additionally, the user was responsible for setting up and configuring the VuePress-based documentation site and its deployment.
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