David Williamson
Fort Mill, South Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Williamson is a principal software engineer with over 25 years at Microsoft, specializing in cloud, IoT, and developer tooling while leading cross-language teams in .NET, Java, and Rust. He combines hands-on engineering—authoring MQTT authorization services in Rust and improving Azure IoT SDKs—with strong operational rigor, having driven customer issues down from hundreds to single digits through better testing and diagnostics. David mentors and scales teams, architects resilient long-running jobs and safe deployment strategies, and has hands-on DevOps experience automating build-agent and lab deployments. An active contributor to widely used Azure open-source repos, he blends front-end telemetry and visualization work with deep backend and SDK improvements, and is currently expanding into Kubernetes and Rust-based systems.
11 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
AAS, Science, AAS, Science at Pierce Community CollegeChemistry, Chemistry at Washington State University
Spanish
Github Skills (39)
javascript10
scripting10
azure-sdk10
testing10
net10
mqtt10
dotnet10
microsoft-azure10
resource-management10
chartjs10
eventhub10
java10
azure-iothub10
mqttnet10
cicd10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Azure-Samples/web-apps-node-iot-hub-data-visualization
Apr 2019 - Apr 2020
web application for visualization data from IoT Hub
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 16 commits, 22 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:David primarily worked on the front-end of a web application for visualizing data from IoT Hub. They updated JavaScript packages, including Chart.js, and made code changes to the `chart-device-data.js` file to add device counting and improve UI styling. Additionally, the user modified the `index.html` file to accommodate UI improvements. The user also touched backend code in `event-hub-reader.js` and `server.js` to update dependencies and integrate the latest eventhub package.
iotvisualization
Azure/azure-iot-sdk-csharp
Jan 2020 - Jan 2023
A C# SDK for connecting devices to Microsoft Azure IoT services
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 4595 reviews, 365 commits in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:David's commits focused on core functionality within the C# SDK for Azure IoT services, including changes to twin property handling and improvements to fault injection tests. They made contributions to the device client, module client, and also modified the retry policies. The commits also involved code style enforcement and refactoring of build scripts.
csharpiotmicrosoft-azure
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