Curtis Bezault
Senior Software Engineer at Pure Storage
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolCurtis Bezault is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building resilient backend systems and developer tooling from San Jose, California. He has a strong C++ and systems background demonstrated by meaningful contributions to Microsoft’s widely used vcpkg and STL repositories, where he improved build and install processes, conflict detection, and CI provisioning. At Microsoft he worked on cross-platform package management and CI automation, and now applies that expertise to storage and infrastructure challenges at Pure Storage. Curtis blends hands-on engineering with DevOps sensibilities—he’s comfortable modifying build pipelines, hashing strategies for dependency tracking, and handling platform-specific file semantics such as macOS partition moves. He holds a BS in Computer Science from UIUC and began honing systems skills early as a course assistant for CS241, giving him both academic rigor and practical, production-focused experience.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Stuyvesant High School
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (30)
azure-devops-server10
dependency-management10
cpp-library10
c-language10
lib10
build-system10
cmake10
cicd10
azure-devops10
build-automation10
c-libraries10
vcpkg10
powershell10
package-manager10
clib10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/STL
Jan 2020 - Jan 2022
MSVC's implementation of the C++ Standard Library.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:205 reviews, 32 commits, 89 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Curtis primarily contributed to the repository by updating and provisioning the CI machines. They modified scripts to update dependencies, install necessary tools like CMake, Ninja, and Python, and set up the build environment. They also worked on the Azure DevOps pipelines and the image creation process, demonstrating an understanding of build automation and infrastructure management within the project.
cppc-plus-plusstandard-librarystlmsvc
microsoft/vcpkg
Apr 2019 - Jan 2020
C++ Library Manager for Windows, Linux, and MacOS
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:90 commits, 321 PRs, 292 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Curtis's contributions focused on improving the C++ library manager, vcpkg, particularly concerning build processes and installation procedures. They modified build scripts to include changes when hashing. Additional changes included the implementation of code to identify and print conflicting files during installation. Further changes included refactoring for the merging of master branches as well as the addition of exit codes to the vcpkg.cpp file and also including portfile settings.
c-plus-plussetuptoolspackage-managermacoscplusplus
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