I am currently building up the team for Windows Live Europe, a new Microsoft development center located in Dublin, Ireland. Our goal is to provide a top-notch development capability for Windows Live in EMEA. We are currently working on adCenter and mobile platform related projects.
* * * Windows Live Europe is hiring: full-time positions in Dublin, Ireland * * *
Are you passionate about working on state-of-the-art problems in a startup environment? Are you interested in an international experience? Would you like to work in an area that will be generating huge revenue growth for Microsoft?
We are looking for a senior developer for adCenter development in the Windows Live Europe team in Dublin, Ireland. This is a unique opportunity to make a significant impact on Microsoft’s global product development in Europe.
adCenter is part of the MSN Monetization platform and is dedicated to creating a high end, innovative advertising platform to enable advertisers to reach users. As part of the essential tools that we will be offering advertisers and site owners are very powerful visualization controls to help advertisers and site owners better understand the effectiveness of their campaigns and their site usage.
We are looking for a highly motivated senior C++/C# developer with a creative, inquisitive and explorative mind. You will be responsible for all aspects of product feature development, including design, development and quality.
Requirements:
- A minimum of 3 years of relevant product development experience.
- Top-notch C++ coding skills and the ability to work with complex and large code bases.
- Experience designing and implementing complex, distributed systems.
- A proven track record of shipping on time and at a very high quality level.
- Energy and desire to deliver high-quality software on aggressive schedules.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- A BS CS degree or equivalent.
Other experience that would be a plus for this position:
- Knowledge of C# and ASP.NET.
- Strong systems background (e.g. operating systems, networking, databases).
- MS or PhD in CS or equivalent field.
- Experience with agile development methodologies.
- A background in statistics/mathematics and/or image processing.
- Experience with using graphics libraries (e.g. GDI+).
- Artistic sense in designing graphics and images.
Want to know more? Please contact Theresa Cantwell at v-thcant@microsoft.com.
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Dan Teodosiu
Director, Windows Live Europe, Microsoft Corporation
Dublin - Ireland
Schools attended |
Stanford University (Computer Science) |
Universitatea Politehnica din Bucuresti (Facultatea de Automatica si Calculatoare) |
Microsoft Corporation |
Director, Windows Live Europe
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I am currently building up the team for Windows Live Europe, a new Microsoft development center located in Dublin, Ireland. Our goal is to provide a top-notch development capability for Windows Live in EMEA. We are currently working on adCenter and mobile platform related projects. Until August 2006, I have been leading an MSN initiative aimed at providing users with easy to use solutions for securely sharing and accessing their private data. Sharing Folders, our first solution, shipped as part of Windows Live Messenger 8.0 http://get.live.com/messenger/overview. I joined MSN from Core File Solutions/Windows where I was an architect for 2.5 years. As part of CFS, my team shipped the Distributed File System and File Replication Service in Windows Server 2003, and a redesigned state-of-he-art file replication service (DFSR) in Windows Server 2003 R2 http://www.microsoft.com/technet/itshowcase/content/msdfsvc..... DFSR is a key component for supporting the new branch office scenarios in R2, and is also included in Vista and Longhorn server. I joined Microsoft in 2002 through the acquisition of XDegrees, a small Bay Area start-up I co-founded in 2000 that was building a solution for universal secure file access. As the CTO of XDegrees, I recruited and managed the engineering team through its first product release. | |
Sector: High Tech |
2000 - 2002 : XDegrees, Inc. |
CTO and Co-Founder
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As the interim VP of Engineering, managed 17 engineers through a product release cycle and the deployment of XDegrees’ co-located infrastructure. Helped raise $8M of Series A funding from first-tier VC firms. Recruited a top-notch executive and engineering team of 31 people. Architected and led the implementation of a highly scalable, cost-effective, and secure alternative to VPNs and extranets. Actively involved with customer contacts, business development, and the definition of XDegrees’ market positioning. Filed numerous U.S. and international patent applications. | |
Sector: Software publishers |
1999 - 2000 : Xift, Inc. |
VP of Engineering and Co-Founder
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Architected and led the implementation of a distributed infrastructure for Web crawling, automatic concept hierarchy construction, page indexing and ranking, and query serving. Successfully implemented and launched Xift’s search engine and automatic web directory based on a 60 million page corpus. Built and managed Xift’s development team. Managed the planning, deployment, and operations of Xift’s processing infrastructure at a co-location facility. | |
Sector: Software publishers |
1998 - 1999 : Hewlett-Packard Laboratories |
Senior Scientist
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Architected the strategy for the vPars (Virtual Partitions) product line for HP SuperDome platforms. Designed and led the implementation of the first version of the vPars product for HP-UX. Contributed to the definition of next-generation HP platform hardware features. Designed the high-availability support and implemented the system level simulation-based testing harness for a modular multicomputer operating system. | |
Sector: Computer Equipment & Peripherals |
1994 - 1998 : Stanford University |
PhD Candidate
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Dissertation: “End-to-end Fault Containment in Scalable Shared-Memory Multiprocessors” (advisor: Prof. Mendel Rosenblum). Granted a Stanford School of Engineering Fellowship. | |
Sector: High Tech |
1991 - 1994 : Alcatel Austria Research Center |
Technical Lead
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Managed a team of five engineers during the design and implementation of a complex industrial monitoring and optimization system for a large European customer. Based on customer feedback, defined and implemented key performance and usability optimizations for the Pamela-C rule-based programming environment. Performed customer requirements analysis and system design for a fault-resilient expert system for telecommunication networks, and for the European industrial research project BRE20566. | |
Sector: Telecom - Internet Products and Services |