Paul Shealy

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Redmond, Washington, United States22 yrs 10 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led award-winning Azure Machine Learning platform redesign.
Expert in driving complex projects across large organizations.
Passionate about coaching and employee development.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a strong focus on AI and machine learning solutions.

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C#SQL ServerC++MySQLSoftware DevelopmentSQLMicrosoft SQL ServerMongoDBProgrammingDatabase DesignWeb ApplicationsIntegrationSoftware EngineeringMobile DevicesTesting

About

Software engineering leader with a track record of building new products and experiences that delight customers. My team and I build the Azure AI Foundry evaluation platform, tracing, Foundry MCP, and more. I excel at driving complex projects across large organizations. I enjoy coaching employees so they learn, grow, and thrive. I frequently create clarity when there is substantial ambiguity.

Experience

Microsoft

5 roles

Principal Group Engineering Manager

Jun 2025 – Present · 9 mos

Leading three teams delivering the observability platform for GenAI applications across evaluation, tracing, red-teaming, and more.

Principal Group Engineering Manager

Feb 2024 – Jun 2025 · 1 yr 4 mos

Leading cross-team engineering for Microsoft Foundry’s APIs and SDKs, and spinning up two observability teams from incubation to delivery.

Principal Software Engineering Manager

Promoted

Feb 2021 – Feb 2024 · 3 yrs

Engineering leader responsible for the developer platform (SDK and CLI) in Azure Machine Learning. I led this platform through a complete redesign and rewrite to significantly improve the user experience. This platform was recognized as a Leader in the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud AI Developer Services, with Microsoft placed furthest in “Completeness of Vision”.

Principal Software Engineer

Feb 2020 – Feb 2021 · 1 yr

Engineering lead for the CLI and Python SDK in Azure Machine Learning.

Senior Software Engineer

Jun 2014 – Feb 2020 · 5 yrs 8 mos

Lead engineer for the Data Science Virtual Machine in the Cloud AI group. These tools enabled data scientists to get started quickly on Azure with data science, machine learning, deep learning, and related activities. Their simple, consistent usability led the DSVM to the highest customer adoption of all ML-related tools in Azure.
Previously, I was the project lead for the Office 365 Planner team. I also worked on disaster recovery, high availability, analytics, APIs, data storage, compliance, testing, and other areas.

Crooked chimney technology group, llc

Chief Technology Officer

Jul 2013 – Jan 2015 · 1 yr 6 mos · Charlotte, NC

Adventures in applied marketing science and advanced marketing analytics.

Logic league

Partner

Dec 2012 – Jun 2013 · 6 mos · Charlotte, NC

Consultant for startups and businesses in the greater Charlotte region looking to develop innovative products, improve efficiency, and reduce costs.

Ontrack performance tools

Partner and Director of Software Development

Jun 2004 – Jun 2014 · 10 yrs

Partner at a successful startup
Supervised development of a suite of web applications that serves as the company’s primary software product, currently used by hundreds of premier clients across five continents
Directed all software development and supervised all software developers
Designed system architecture
Interacted with company personnel and clients to design, develop, test, and deploy new software solutions
Lead efforts to integrate software with applications from other vendors
Interacted with clients and company personnel to identify and address potential problems
Responsible for all company hardware and software