Protect the Platform - Shielded VM deployment infrastructure• Owned template tool that encrypted and hashed volumes• Worked in WMI providers that orchestrated Hyper-V• Wrote code for the restricted Virtual Secure Mode (VSM) environment• Implemented version negotiation for the product stack to improve maintainability• Transported security-critical calls into kernel mode through a custom device driver• Hardened kernel mode device driver code for secure virtual machine provisioningWeb-Based Server Management - Remote diagnostics tools for infrastructure• Authored type-safe and low-overhead data interaction layer in ASP.NET MVC• Championed test driven development (TDD) to verify TypeScript / JavaScript frontend• Architected test harness with interprocess communication (IPC / named pipes)• Worked with Azure UX teams to improve framework usability / testability / performance• Drove end-to-end performance/scale investigations throughout the product stackServer Manager - local and remote machine management console• Refactored Server Manager to use high-performance algorithms and proper threading technique• Redesigned data storage structures to drastically reduce query times and memory usage• Rewrote network query code to use lightweight libraries for remote operations (CIM / PowerShell

Installed application and database servers for use in software testingHelped standardize and secure remote access practicesInvestigated compatibility with new releases of third-party systemsHelped to coordinate an office and lab relocationVerified that documentation complied with company standardsMaintained in-house scripting base and associated serverActed as the primary Unix resource for multiple teamsUtilized alternative automation to speed testing process

Basic Windows environment IT job, with some occasional FreeBSD.