Brian Bowman
Lead Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Bowman is a Lead Principal Software Engineer with a decade of experience building developer tools and connected-device platforms at Microsoft, currently leading the Xbox Game Streaming Developer Tools team from Redmond. He blends deep systems-level expertise—demonstrated by contributions to the WinObjC project implementing Keychain-like security primitives and low-level C++ memory work—with product-focused leadership across Project Rome and Xbox streaming. Known for shipping reliable, secure integrations, he moves comfortably between backend systems, platform APIs, and developer experiences. A Purdue-trained computer engineer, Brian pairs pragmatic problem solving with an attention to engineering detail that surfaces in both customer-facing tooling and subtle low-level fixes.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering at Purdue University
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Github Skills (9)
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objective-c10
memory-management10
low-level-programming10
c-language10
system-programming10
cprogramming-language10
security-framework10
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/WinObjC
Nov 2015 - May 2017
Objective-C for Windows
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:204 commits, 196 PRs, 105 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Brian implemented several features within the Security framework for WinObjC, including initial implementations of SecItemAdd and other basic Keychain Services functionality. The user also worked on fixing linking issues and addressing bugs related to error codes and return types. Their contributions involved low-level system programming and working with memory management in C++.
objective-cwindows
microsoft/xbox-game-streaming-tools
Sep 2020 - Oct 2022
Tools for Xbox Game Streaming
Contributions:6 releases, 4 reviews, 6 commits in 2 years 1 month
game-streamingxboxstreamingps
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