Austin Lamb
Senior Software Development Lead at Microsoft
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAustin Lamb is a Senior Software Development Lead based in Bellevue with 7+ years of experience building developer platforms and consumer features across Windows Phone, XAML/WinUI, Silverlight, and Xbox. At Microsoft he has progressed from hands-on framework work—like Navigation and deep-linking in Silverlight and Kinect voice control for Xbox—to leading a team focused on growing a vibrant third-party app ecosystem for Windows Phone. He blends platform engineering with practical product sensibilities, shipping features that improve battery life, multi-resolution support, and developer tooling. Comfortable across the stack, he also has roots in IT, web, and systems work from earlier roles at the Iowa League of Cities. Known for moving between prototyping novel platforms and production-grade framework development, he brings both curiosity and execution to mobile and engineering systems problems. Outside of product work, he’s actively engaged in hiring and shaping the developer experience to attract diverse app creators.
7 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Iowa State University
Github Skills (81)
cmd10
python10
xaml10
windows10
windows-phone10
winforms10
visual-studio10
xbox10
wpf10
cpp10
linux10
dotnet10
windows-app10
windows-forms10
windows-app-sdk10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/SizeBench
Dec 2021 - Jul 2022
Contributions:10 reviews, 24 commits, 37 PRs in 6 months
binary-sizeinvestigationwindowspe-filesymbols
Austin-Lamb/ntosebpfext
May 2024 - Jul 2024
eBPF-For-Windows extension to provide access to Windows kernel functionality
Contributions:34 pushes, 7 branches in 2 months
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