Daniel Burgener
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Burgener is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building secure, low-level and embedded systems, currently contributing to Microsoft from Washington, D.C. His background spans C and C++ systems development, SELinux policy design and analysis, and scripting and tooling in Python and Lua, reflecting a strong security-oriented systems mindset. Prior roles include technical leadership at Tresys where he taught security classes and consulted with customers, and embedded/desktop work at Ford, showing breadth across product and consulting environments. He began his career in academia at Northwestern, co-authoring research papers and teaching programming, which underlines his ability to communicate complex technical ideas clearly. Notably, he combines hands-on implementation skills with policy-level security expertise—useful for bridging engineering and compliance in large organizations.
13 years of coding experience
BA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at Northwestern University
Github Skills (58)
rbac10
static-code-analysis10
security-hardening10
linux10
security10
grammar10
selinux10
parser-generator10
security-policy10
access-control10
azure10
rust10
xml-parser9
roguelike9
xml-reader9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
dburgener/cascade
May 2021 - Jan 2023
A high level language for SELinux policy
Contributions:290 reviews, 248 commits, 404 PRs in 1 year 8 months
selinuxselinux-policy
dburgener/lalrpop
Apr 2022 - Jun 2026
LR(1) parser generator for Rust
Contributions:24 PRs, 146 pushes, 177 branches in 4 years 3 months
parser-generatorrust
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