Zaron Thompson
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Renton, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorZaron Thompson is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years focused on building engaging AI demos and code-free development experiences at Microsoft, and a longer history of inventing practical robotics and vision systems. He founded Instinctive Robotics to productize an educational haptic-controlled robotic arm with a synchronized 3D touchscreen interface, and previously engineered scalable robotic demos and cloud-native manufacturing backends for startups and consultancies. Zaron's work blends machine learning, real-time graphics, and hardware integration—from Project Murphy’s viral AI demos to GPU-driven virtual product rendering that scaled ecommerce for a growing retailer. Based in Renton, WA, he excels at turning experimental AI into polished, demo-ready experiences that accelerate adoption by sales teams and partners. A hands-on builder and founder, he pairs creative prototyping with production-grade architecture to make complex tech accessible to nontechnical users.
8 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (13)
anki9
vector9
api9
robot9
kiosk8
csharp8
powerplatform6
intelligent6
cognitive-services5
microsoft-cognitive-services4
experiences4
azure3
microsoft3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
zaront/zaront.github.io
Oct 2018 - Oct 2023
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
zaront/vector
Mar 2019 - May 2021
C# API for the Anki Vector robot.
Contributions:32 commits, 33 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 2 months
apirobotcsharpvectorc-api
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