My Biography
Douglas Purdy is a software architect at Microsoft working on software development tools, languages and frameworks.
He is responsible for the technical strategy of Microsoft’s data and modeling efforts.
His vision is to broaden the franchise of people building applications, allowing non-professional developers and end-users to harness the full power of computing.
Previously, Douglas led the “M” team, building Microsoft’s next generation data language and was the group program manager for Windows Communication Foundation (”Indigo”) and Windows Workflow Foundation (”WinOE”).
He has been with Microsoft, on and off, since 1998 where he has worked in consulting, evangelism and engineering.
Douglas can be reached at douglasp@microsoft.com