Brent Allen
Principal Software Engineering Lead at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolBrent Allen is a Principal Software Engineering Lead at Microsoft with over 7 years of hands-on experience building mixed reality and sensor-driven systems, including work on HoloLens and Azure Kinect. Based in Redmond, he blends backend engineering and DevOps practices to improve build processes, versioning, and developer experience for high-profile open-source projects like the Azure-Kinect-Sensor-SDK. Trained as an electrical and electronics engineer, he brings hardware-aware software insight that helps bridge device firmware and cloud services. Known for pragmatic refactors—such as automated version number generation and MSBuild integration—he focuses on making complex systems more maintainable and easier for other engineers to adopt.
7 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Washington State University
Github Skills (6)
build-system10
versioning10
cmake10
sdk10
documentation8
msbuild7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/Azure-Kinect-Sensor-SDK
Feb 2019 - Oct 2019
A cross platform (Linux and Windows) user mode SDK to read data from your Azure Kinect device.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:89 commits, 54 PRs, 89 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Brent primarily worked on the configuration and setup of the Azure Kinect Sensor SDK. Their contributions included refactoring version number generation, adding version resources to binaries, and incorporating optional file revision metadata. Additionally, the user added MSBuild projects to examples, and performed various documentation edits. These changes suggest a focus on improving build processes, versioning, and the overall developer experience.
windowslinuxkinectsdkopenvr
Brent-A/Azure-Kinect-Sensor-SDK
May 2019 - Dec 2019
A cross platform (Linux and Windows) user mode SDK to read data from your Azure Kinect device.
Contributions:120 commits, 133 pushes, 37 branches in 6 months
windowslinuxkinectsdkcross-platform
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