David Kirby
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Monroe, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Kirby is a Principal Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building large-scale, high-reliability cloud services at Microsoft, currently advancing Azure Arc enabled servers. He specializes in distributed systems, microservice architectures, and low-latency configuration stores—work that has included transparent data migrations and redesigns that improved latency and reliability for Skype for Business and Teams. David blends hands-on engineering with pragmatic problem-solving, operating from a philosophy that most constraints can be solved in software. He brings a strong academic foundation in software engineering (M.Eng., McMaster) and early experience in broadcast and web systems, giving him a broad systems-to-application perspective. Based in Monroe, Washington, he is comfortable leading complex migrations and delivering production-grade infrastructure across global services. A detail that often gets overlooked: his graduate work implemented distributed discrete-event simulation using MPI, reflecting both parallel computing expertise and a taste for solving nontrivial performance problems.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Software Engineering, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Software Engineering at McMaster University
English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (13)
azure10
rest-api10
swagger10
api10
microsoft-azure10
rest10
openapi10
microsoft10
css6
visual-studio6
sorting6
garbage-collection6
java6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dkirby017/azure-rest-api-specs
Feb 2021 - Mar 2025
The source for REST API specifications for Microsoft Azure.
Contributions:2 PRs, 36 pushes, 7 branches in 4 years 2 months
apispecificationsrestmicrosoft-azuremicrosoft
dkirby017/Java-Basic-Webserver
Sep 2012 - Sep 2012
Contributions:10 commits in 2 days
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