Dwayne Need
Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Greater Seattle Area United States
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Top SchoolDwayne Need is a Principal Software Engineering Manager with nearly three decades at Microsoft, currently leading Adaptive Cloud Engineering Services to provide lab, validation, and R&D infrastructure for product teams. His career spans consumer media, developer tools, Windows internals, .NET frameworks, Azure Stack, and edge cloud solutions, giving him rare cross-domain expertise from UI layers to cloud appliances. He specializes in software design and architecture and in building high-performing teams that tackle complex, production-scale problems. Dwayne has repeatedly bridged product and platform needs—shipping features in Windows Media Player and WPF, then shaping cloud-consistent services for on-prem and edge scenarios. Based in the Greater Seattle Area, he combines deep technical craftsmanship with systems-level thinking and a persistent curiosity about developer tooling and intent-driven programming. Colleagues know him for turning ambiguous challenges into practical infrastructure that accelerates engineering velocity.
7 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at North Carolina School of Science and MathematicsBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at North Carolina State University
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Github Skills (52)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
DwayneNeed/dwayneneed.github.io
Jan 2019 - Jan 2019
Contributions:14 pushes in 1 day
DwayneNeed/test-runner-sandbox
Jan 2022 - Jan 2022
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
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