InSTEDD
Engineering
400 Hamilton Avenue
Suite # 120
Palo Alto,
CA
USA
94301
Email:
edjez@instedd.org
Biographical Sketch:
Eduardo (Ed) Jezierski has spent his whole career designing, implementing, and deploying software solutions on a global scale. He originally received an MSc in Informatics after initial studies in nuclear engineering, and later worked in Argentina in the areas of GIS analysis, machine learning, and modeling for anthropology challenges. His Master’s thesis was on robotics control, genetic algorithms and neural networks. He spent nine years in software development at Microsoft, first supporting largest enterprise customers, then later as Program Manager and Solutions Architect.
He was one of the founders of a team dedicated to building software assets (tools, practices, frameworks, services, content and information architectures) to improve quality and productivity of Microsoft’s business customers. The usage of these assets and frameworks climbed at its inception from zero to more than 2 million developers worldwide and adoption in excess of 80% of the target market – including financial, healthcare, military, and manufacturing customers.
Ed also developed a strategy for building communities consisting of academia, software vendors, other technical partners, customers and grassroots participants by initiating new shared source approaches for engineering at Microsoft. There are now more than 25,000 registered members and hundreds of thousands of lines of source code shared between the participants, while still maintaining acceptable IP protection for Microsoft and other members. A practitioner of agile software-design approaches, he has built and led numerous global teams in producing mission-critical assets in just months, and has presented on software architectures and design approaches for large distributed systems in conferences around the globe. Most recent development arenas include transactional and analytics systems, software systems integration, scalable web services, and user interface design.
He helped found a team at Microsoft dedicated to starting new businesses by providing an internal venture capital model and growing innovation practices and entrepreneurship in the company, working directly with the staff of the Chief Software Architect. He contributed to defining strategy and early execution of the new group and delivered prototypes in the domain of mesh architectures, real-time communications and immersive web environments for long-tail retail. Some of these prototypes were designed, written, and validated in the field in collaboration with Microsoft’s Humanitarian Systems Group.