Sean Nolan is a Distinguished Engineer currently serving as Chief Architect of the Health Solutions Group, where his mission is to improve global health and wellness by building and delivering great software to an industry that badly needs it.

Nolan’s professional career began in 1989, when as a perhaps overly-confident Dartmouth junior he wrote personal letters to Steve Jobs and Bill Gates asking for an internship. Gates never replied, but a few weeks and one terrifying interview trip later, Microsoft offered him actual money to write code. After college Nolan moved to Washington state, and wrote code for many versions of Works – from DOS and OS/2 to the Mac and ultimately Windows. He then moved to the newly formed MSN team to help sim-launch with Windows 95. Nolan left Microsoft in 1996 for a 10-year journey through the startup and venture capital worlds, where his most visible role was as CTO of Drugstore.com. In 2006, he had the opportunity to return to Microsoft help found the Health Solutions Group.

Nolan lives with his wife and two children in Bellevue, splitting his family time between baseball, horse shows, and Disneyland whenever he gets the opportunity.