Darren Gehring
Principal Software Engr Mgr
About
I am a Software Engineering Manager on the Central Engineering Team ran by Ryen White (GM Research and Engineering at Microsoft, Redmond). A good listen on what the group does can be heard in this podcast.
After 10 years of being in SQL Server I came to MSR as the first QA person in MSR in 2005. My role has morphed into more general engineering management with emphasis on “code that doesn’t necessarily go into the product”. What does this mean for me and my team? My role has many different facets to it. We are mainly in charge of infrastructure (builds, CI, AI model verification, security, compliance etc) but we are the team that is the Swiss army knife that takes on many roles in the diverse world of Microsoft Research. I have a great team that has a lot of experience which allows me to spend the majority of my time getting my hands dirty in various projects. My team consists of Chuck, Irina, Rick and ThuVan.
What projects do I work on? The joys of central engineering is that we work on all the various projects that is part of Microsoft Research. We have done AI, Kinect work, phones, systems, VR, Enable (accessibility), web, computer vision, hardware etc. For a list of my projects go to “My Projects” and the “More” tabs.