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 (97)
security-hardening10
parser10
semgrep10
security10
code-analysis10
audit-logging10
vms10
linter10
cdr10
static-analysis10
sarif10
journal10
linux10
peg10
access-control10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
dburgener/cascade
May 2021 - Jan 2023
A high level language for SELinux policy
Contributions:290 reviews, 248 commits, 399 PRs in 1 year 8 months
policysarifrusthigh-levelselinux
dburgener/lalrpop
Apr 2022 - Mar 2025
LR(1) parser generator for Rust
Contributions:24 PRs, 131 pushes, 157 branches in 3 years
rustrustlangparsingparser-generatorparser
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