Dusty Harper
Principal Software Engineer Team Lead at Microsoft
Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDusty Harper is a Principal Software Engineer and team lead at Microsoft with roughly 6 years of formal experience in leadership roles and a long technical tenure focused on core networking for Azure. He has deep, hands-on expertise across Windows networking stacks—WFP, IPsec, Windows Firewall, RRAS—and has evolved from test engineering into architecting and leading production networking teams. At Microsoft he now drives core Azure networking architecture and delivery, balancing low-level protocol knowledge with cloud-scale operational concerns. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex networking requirements into reliable, secure services that integrate with Azure’s distributed control and data planes. Based in Washington, he brings institutional knowledge of Microsoft networking gained over multiple roles and a knack for mentoring engineers as systems grow in scale and complexity.
6 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
The Ohio State UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Mansfield Senior High School
Github Skills (15)
windows-driver10
driver10
desktop9
visual-studio9
microsoft9
windows9
wdk9
internet-connection6
bandwidth5
wake-on-lan4
stress-testing3
snmp3
aix3
openflow3
linux2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
DHarper89936/Windows-driver-samples
Jun 2019 - Aug 2019
This repo contains driver samples prepared for use with Microsoft Visual Studio and the Windows Driver Kit (WDK). It contains both Universal Windows Driver and desktop-only driver samples.
Contributions:6 pushes in 2 months
microsoft-visual-studiowindows-driverwindowswdkwindows-driver-kit
microsoft/NetPerfTest
Jan 2024 - Sep 2024
Network Performance Test
Contributions:41 reviews, 38 comments in 7 months
msftnetnetwork-performancenetwork-performance-testperformanceperformance-test
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