Monte Davidoff

Monte Davidoff (; born 1956) is an American computer programmer who was one of the first employees of Microsoft. He graduated from Nicolet High School in 1974. As a high-school student, he developed a deep interest in computers and taught himself to code in different languages and for different computers. He subsequently attended Harvard College, majoring in mathematics. Davidoff also worked at WHRB, the college radio station, and graduated from Harvard in 1978.

Davidoff was a schoolmate of Bill Gates at Harvard. They finished this project in 1977. Davidoff was responsible for the mathematical routines. These routines were subsequently reused in Microsoft BASIC products for other systems. The source code is now available at the Pusey Library of Harvard University.

Davidoff returned to Harvard to finish his degree. He later worked at Honeywell Information Systems on the Multics project, Tandem Computers, Ready Systems, and Stratus Computer. Since 2000, he has been working as a consultant through his own company, Alluvial Software, in Cupertino, California. Although he facilitated the rise of Microsoft, he later became a Linux user. His favorite programming language is Python.