Russell Conard
Russell works as a product architect at Microsoft within Azure Edge and Platform (AE+P) helping drive innovation among our Edge, IoT, and Device offerings. With a decade of prior experience building IoT systems from firmware on custom devices to large scale cloud systems, Russell helps customers at every level of the stack.
Starting with developing biogeochemistry optimization software in 2007, his career has been dedicated to building software to help “smart people do smart people work.” He has a passion for building tools to help STEM professionals spend less time on tasks that can be done by computers and more time making an impact. His work serves as an impact multiplier for my users
Russell also serves ecology researchers around the world as the President and Head of Research & Development for Dunkadoo, a non-profit he cofounded to provide enterprise data management tools to meet the diverse and changing demands of field biologists. Dunkadoo’s mobile applications and cloud management tools allows bird migration data to be collected, managed, and visualized in the cloud.
He was previously the founder and CEO of Specteo, a mobile data management company that provided a global platform for managing fieldwork in the cloud. This work earned him a place on Forbes Magazine’s list of “30 Under 30” in 2012.