I'm Tanner Uzzell. I'm 24 years old and I live in Seattle, Washington. I was born in a suburb outside Philadelphia, grew up in Atlanta, and graduated from Howard University.
Since August 2024 I've been a product manager at Microsoft. I work on a product called Purview Data Security Investigations. Day to day I focus on building and improving AI tools to help people reason over at-risk data. This entails stuff like spec writing, data pulling, designing and collaborating with a bunch of smart people at Microsoft.
In my free time I work on Stonefruit. Right now there are three things in flight. MAP ATL, the idea is to collect and visualize all possible data on the city of Atlanta (work in progress). Apricot, a macOS window-snapper I shipped in April 2026, the first paid product from Stonefruit. And Tennis, I've been getting into tennis lately, so this serves as a session tracker, I'm currently rebuilding it. Everything lives at stonefruit.systems.
I'm generally a curious person. I read when I can, I like to watch informative YouTube videos, and I ask people questions in real life if they know more than me about interesting things. But what I've noticed is that (kinda) none of that is real. It all either lives external to me, or enters my brain and doesn't leave in a tangible way.
I was reading Antifragile by Nassim N. Taleb, and I started to think about how I work a little differently. His big points were around tinkering and emergence, that learning about things is often less valuable, and less true, than just doing things. So instead of looking in books or classes or videos or even other people for answers, you build something and see what you learn, or what emerges. I'm working to apply that thinking to my career, Stonefruit, and everything else I do with my time.
Some things I've been into: NBA playoffs, tapas, lamb chops, travel, tennis, bridges.