Colin Daniels
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Issaquah, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolColin Daniels is a Senior Software Engineer and PhD with 11 years of experience specializing in high-performance computing, distributed systems, and cloud-scale security features. At Microsoft he designs and optimizes Azure Front Door’s WAF and L7 DDoS protections, led the JavaScript Challenge feature, and introduced Rust best practices for the next-generation CDN. His background in computational physics and ML has driven original research and massively-parallel simulation software implemented from scratch in C++ and Rust, including work that reduced simulation runtimes from days to hours. Previously he rewrote and parallelized a high-performance relational database engine and implemented allocator-aware C++ improvements that cut memory-safety issues and boosted throughput. Comfortable moving between rapid research prototyping and production-grade systems, he combines supercomputing experience with cloud operational responsibilities such as on-call triage and post-mortems. Based in Issaquah, Washington, he brings a rare mix of academic rigor and pragmatic engineering that favors modern C++ and Rust for reliable, high-performance solutions.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Condensed Matter and Materials Physics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (29)
rust10
rust-lang9
standard-library9
compiler9
rust-language8
garbage-collection8
crate8
runner7
allocator7
azerothcore6
source-engine6
sphere6
c-library5
constexpr5
compatibility5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
colin-daniels/pyputil
Apr 2019 - Nov 2019
Utility python code for the analysis of graphene nanomaterials
Contributions:5 PRs, 31 pushes, 5 branches in 6 months
python-codepythonpython-utilitynanomaterialsgraphene
colin-daniels/sp2
Feb 2020 - Jul 2021
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 1 year 5 months
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