Daniel Havey
Program Manager at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Havey is a Program Manager at Microsoft leading TCP/UDP/QUIC/IPv4/IPv6 networking and transport protocol efforts for Windows, translating cutting‑edge research into deployable features. He holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science from UCSB where his dissertation, “Bandwidth and Latency on the Packet Switched Internet,” focused on next‑generation transport, queuing theory, wireless and routing protocols. With nine years at Microsoft and research internships at Qualcomm, Cisco, Lockheed Martin, Citrix and The Aerospace Corporation, he bridges deep academic expertise and practical industry experience. Daniel’s work centers on making mature transport research usable in large‑scale commercial systems, and he acts as the SME driving adoption of modern protocols like QUIC within Windows. A detail that’s less obvious: his background in queuing theory informs pragmatic performance tradeoffs when moving protocols from lab simulations into real OS stacks.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science, A, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science, A at California State University-San BernardinoDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, A, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, A at University of California, Santa Barbara
Github Skills (41)
measurement10
ietf10
udp10
sctp10
bandwidth10
network-programming10
windows-service10
windows-server10
quic10
tcp10
cpp10
csharp10
traffic10
gnuradio10
cross-platform9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
dahavey/WinQUIC
Feb 2018 - Mar 2020
Contributions:18 commits, 8 PRs, 16 pushes in 2 years 1 month
quicwindowstransport
dahavey/windowsserverdocs
Jan 2024 - Jul 2024
Public content repository for Windows Server 2016 content.
Contributions:9 pushes in 6 months
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