Dan Bjorge

Accessibility Insights

• Represented Microsoft as a member of the W3C Accessibility Guidelines Working Group advancing the industry-standard Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
• Built and maintained accessibility testing tools, services, libraries, and guidance spanning a wide variety of platforms (Web, Windows, Mac, Linux, Android) and developer ecosystems
• Helped ~100,000 users of our open-source tools, including most Microsoft development teams, to make their software more accessible to all
• Led technical collaboration between Accessibility Insights and internal/external partner teams

Windows Engineering System

• Saved ~10,000 engineer-hours/year by making it easier to onboard tests to Windows’ test labs
• Maintained and scaled out a legacy continuous integration system that reduced build and test times for typical Windows developers’ code changes from 20 hours to 1 hour
• Responsible for rapid full-stack development of many internal tools/services (mostly Azure/C#, some TypeScript/React) as part of an XP engineering team, working directly with stakeholders

Windows Networking

• Owned Windows Update’s underlying data transfer layer (BITS), serving over one billion end users
• Responsible for all of Windows’ APIs for performing background data transfer and SOAP operations
• Improved team efficiency by introducing several agile techniques, including retrospectives, pair programming, and test-driven design, to a heavily waterfall-focused Windows dev team
• Designed and built the end-to-end networking stress and reliability test strategy for Windows 8/8.1
• Responsible for the Windows Hardware Certification Kit test suite for NetworkDirect capabilities of ethernet devices, driving quality of the entire hardware ecosystem across many companies
• Designed and implemented a network protocol fuzz testing framework, and used it to identify several zero-day critical class security bugs in the Windows 8 TCP/IP stack

AirPush Detector was an independently developed Android app that helped identify other apps using push notifications for advertisements. Over its lifetime, the app had 6 million user installs. Android built this functionality into the OS with Android 4.1, and I sunset the app in 2017.