Brian Baumhover
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft AI
Greater Seattle Area United States
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Top SchoolBrian Baumhover is a Principal Software Engineer with 11+ years building reliable, high-performance browser and media systems, currently leading observability and automation efforts on Microsoft AI's Browser Fundamentals Team. He designs full-stack infrastructure that processes millions of native stack traces daily, leverages LLM-based agentic reasoning to triage and fix Chromium performance issues, and ships web apps and databases to visualize large-scale test results. Brian combines deep systems and embedded experience—from Windows media playback and device tooling to C#, C++, Python, and cloud services—with a knack for deconstructing problems to their root cause. Based in Greater Seattle, he thrives on ownership-driven projects and is drawn to high-impact, technically challenging opportunities that improve user experience at scale. An early career background in embedded firmware and VR tooling informs his pragmatic, cross-stack approach to reliability engineering.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Engineering at Iowa State UniversityInternational Student Exchange Program, Japanese Studies, International Student Exchange Program, Japanese Studies at Kansai Gaidai University
English, Spanish, Japanese
Stackoverflow
33reputation
263reached
5answers
1question
Github Skills (116)
image-processing10
editor10
sdk10
keen-io10
swift10
mixpanel10
electron10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
vscode10
macos10
objective-c10
ios10
microsoft10
image10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
baumatron/gameboy
Sep 2017 - Dec 2020
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
baumatron/chatterbot
Dec 2016 - Oct 2018
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch, 3 issues in 1 year 10 months
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