Ethan Budd
Software Engineer II at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEthan Budd is a Seattle-based Software Engineer II with eight years of experience spanning backend, systems, and cloud-focused development. He currently holds a Software Engineer II role at Microsoft (since April 2025) and previously served as a Backend Kernel Developer at IBM, contributing to IBM i OS. At IBM, he integrated TOTP-based two-factor authentication, built Rust and Python tooling to ease Linux and Git migrations, and authored and maintained a Rust internal debug and development protocol for the IBM i OS. His early work includes cloud application development, cross-platform mobile wallet apps, and student IT administration, reflecting a versatile mix of backend, tooling, and ops experience, plus research on error correction for decentralized file storage at UW–Madison. He earned a BS in Computer Science from UW–Madison and is known for mentoring peers and delivering secure, reliable systems across the full stack.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Roseville Area Senior High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Github Skills (177)
ripgrep10
libgit210
parser10
watch10
workspace10
grep10
vim10
positional-arguments10
directories10
tegra10
command-line-tool10
ack10
rust-lang10
getopt10
front-end10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
budde25/dotfiles
Apr 2020 - Aug 2021
My personal dotfiles
Contributions:3 PRs, 72 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 4 months
vimkarabinerpersonal-dotfilesdotfileszsh
budde25/PartyDJ
Nov 2019 - Nov 2020
Contributions:74 commits, 2 PRs, 65 pushes in 11 months
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