Pivotal Moments with John Lam

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This week, I'm talking with Dustin Campbell, a Principal Software Development Engineer who's been working on tooling at Microsoft for nearly 15 years. He's worked in Visual Basic.NET, the Roslyn C# compiler, the C# extension for Visual Studio Code, and the WinForms designer in the latest release of .NET Core. He has an undergraduate degree in jazz performance guitar, which naturally led him to building spam tools for his father, then to a software sweatshop in Las Vegas before finally landing at Microsoft. Along the way, I learned what distinguishes compiler engineers from other species of software engineers, whether there is any hope for paring down the concept count to empower non-professional software developers, and why immutable synax trees are awesome. Links from the show -

This week, I'm talking with Jeffrey Mew who's been working on quite a few projects on my team at Microsoft for nearly 3 years. Jeffrey's a graduate of the unique co-op program at the University of Waterloo in Canada, where he interned with us before making the decision to come on as a full time employee. Today, we talk about what makes the co-op program at Waterloo unique, and why Microsoft values so highly the graduates of this program. In fact, at one point a few years back when we hit "peak Waterloo", we had 5 Waterloo graduates on our team! We talk about how PM is really an inter-disciplinary career and what you might be able to do to help prepare for this during school. Along the way, Jeffrey shares with me how he gained valuable experiences in each of the three major projects that he's done at Microsoft: launching Jupyter Notebooks in VS Code, partnering with Facebook on PyTorch tooling, and building a brand new data wrangling experience in VS Code. Links from the show: University of Waterloo Co-OpJupyter Notebooks in VS CodePyTorch in VS Code

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This was a fun conversation about many things, including: Transcript Links: Visual Studio LightswitchFishing KayakAzure CLIMicrosoft Open Tech

Austin recently joined the PROSE (Program Synthesis) team in Developer Division from the University of Tennessee where he was an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science department. In this conversation, Austin and I discuss such topics as: Show transcript Some links from the show: What a $500,000 grant proposal looks like - Austin Z. Henley (austinhenley.com)Nintendo Entertainment System LEGO setThe Design of Everyday ThingsScott Fleming (Austin's PhD advisor) - The University of MemphisOpenAI CodexGitHub Copilot · Your AI pair programmer