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Dan Halem

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Vice President, Office of the CTO at Microsoft
📍 Scotts Valley, California, United States

Dan is the Vice President in the Office of the CTO at Microsoft, with a background as a Principal Software Engineer at Google. He has led site reliability for core systems in Ads and Search and has a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

He identifies as an Art Critic and took personal time for "Existential Contemplation, " which involved spending time with his animals and catching up on pop culture he had missed over the past couple of decades.

Unique fact: Despite a career as a high-level software engineer and tech executive, he describes his occupation as "Art Critic. "

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Experience
19 Years
Current Role
Vice President, Office of the CTO
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Scotts Valley, California, United States
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Site Reliability
Served as the Tech Lead for site reliability for the core systems that power Google Ads and Search.
System Modernization
Initiated and led a major redesign of a search logging and analytics system that was running on 20-year-old code.
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Career

Work history

10-2025
Vice President, Office of the CTO
Microsoft
3-2024 - 10-2024
Principal Software Engineer (Site Reliability)
Google
2-2021 - 3-2024
Existential Contemplation
Personal
3-2007 - 10-2021
Principal Software Engineer
Google
12-2005 - 3-2007
Principal Software Engineer
Kodak EasyShare Gallery(formerly Ofoto)
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Education
9-1989 - 6-1993
Bachelor of Arts - BA
University of California, Santa Cruz
1993 - 1998
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UC Irvine
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