Jim Daly
Senior Developer Writer at Microsoft
Sammamish, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJim Daly is a Senior Developer Writer at Microsoft with 11 years in developer-focused roles and over two decades of experience in CRM and platform documentation. He crafts developer content for the Power Platform and Dataverse, having led multiple programmer/writer teams that produced samples, APIs guidance, and training for Dynamics and Power Apps. Jim blends technical writing with product-minded program management—he’s operated across API design, plugins, performance, and escalation workflows—so his docs are grounded in system-level understanding. His GitHub activity shows attention to content quality automation, refining Acrolinx configuration to enforce writing standards across branches in MicrosoftDocs/powerapps-docs. Based in Sammamish, WA, he brings a rare mix of long-term Microsoft product institutional knowledge and practical tooling experience that keeps developer documentation both accurate and maintainable.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Marketing, Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Marketing at Pacific Lutheran University - School of Business
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Github Skills (14)
acr10
documentation10
content-management9
content-management-system9
branches8
git8
git-branch8
aspnet-web-api6
dynamics-crm6
dynamics-crm-webapi6
odata6
azure-active-directory6
dynamics6
powerapps5
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
MicrosoftDocs/powerapps-docs
Feb 2018 - Jan 2023
Technical Documentation for Microsoft Power Apps
Role in this project:
Technical Writer / Content Strategist
Technical Writer / Content StrategistContributions:45 reviews, 2488 commits, 149 PRs in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Jim primarily merges changes to the `.acrolinx-config.edn` file across multiple branches. These changes involve updates to the allowed branch names and filename matches used by Acrolinx, a writing quality and content checking tool. The commits suggest a focus on integrating content quality checks within the documentation workflow and ensuring consistency across different branches and file locations. The user is refining the configuration to apply quality controls effectively.
powerapps
JimDaly/CRMWebAPILoginControl
Sep 2016 - Nov 2018
A simple WPF user control you can use to connect to Microsoft Dynamics CRM and use with the CRM Web API
Contributions:14 commits, 6 PRs, 12 pushes in 2 years 2 months
crmmicrosoft-dynamics-crmuser-controlwpf
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