Tara W
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolTara W is a Principal Software Engineer with 13+ years building scalable cloud and IoT solutions, currently driving Azure service quality and PaaS engineering at Microsoft. She blends hands-on architecture and SDK development with developer advocacy, previously shaping AWS and Microsoft ecosystems as a technical evangelist and senior engineer. Her work spans Azure IoT, edge computing, AI/ML, serverless, robotics and mobile/web, and she contributes to standards bodies like OASIS MQTT and RISC-V. A Georgia Tech alumna with deep experience across cloud providers, she’s known for turning complex distributed systems into practical developer-facing tools and sample code. Beyond engineering, she’s an active speaker and community builder focused on inclusion and mentoring underrepresented students, translating technical passion into tangible programs and published resources.
12 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyUniversity of GeorgiaBachelor's degree CS/CIS (dual), Bachelor's degree CS/CIS (dual) at Georgia State University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (126)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
amazon-archives/aws-sdk-xamarin
Oct 2014 - Jul 2015
AWS Mobile SDK for Xamarin (Beta)
Contributions:26 commits, 17 pushes, 2 branches in 9 months
mobile-sdkandroidsdkxamarinios
Azure-Samples/qdrant-azure
Feb 2023 - Mar 2024
Qdrant Vector Database on Azure Cloud
Contributions:3 reviews, 7 PRs, 25 pushes in 1 year 1 month
azureazure-container-instancesazure-kubernetes-serviceazure-resource-templatesdocker
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