Emily Kilian
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolEmily Kilian is a Principal Software Engineer in Seattle with 12 years building cloud storage and edge infrastructure at Microsoft, currently driving the Elastic SAN block storage offering for scalable iSCSI volumes. Her background spans client libraries, data plane kernel-mode file systems, and Kubernetes-enabled edge scenarios, with notable work enabling GPU workloads and disconnected/low-resource environments. She is an active contributor to Azure SDKs across Python, Java, and Node.js, improving storage libraries, release readiness, and serialization/deserialization for major Microsoft open-source repos. Emily combines deep systems-level expertise with client-facing problem solving—regularly triaging GitHub and Stack Overflow issues—and has practical experience across C++, Java, and cloud-native stacks. Her academic foundation in computer science, mathematics, and statistics underpins a pragmatic, measurement-driven approach to storage performance and reliability. Colleagues rely on her for iterative, production-focused fixes that bridge kernel, SDK, and cloud service layers.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.S Triple Major: Computer Science Mathematics Statistics, B.S Triple Major: Computer Science Mathematics Statistics at University of Wisconsin-Madison
English, German, Spanish
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Github Skills (26)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-storage-python
Aug 2015 - Jun 2016
Microsoft Azure Storage Library for Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 185 commits, 165 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Emily primarily focused on improving the functionality of the Azure Storage Python library. The commits demonstrate a focus on fixing compilation issues, updating the readme, and adding and refining functionality for table and queue access, involving JSON, xml, and associated metadata. Their work included code changes to various python files as well as related documentation improvements.
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Azure/azure-sdk-for-java
Dec 2013 - Jun 2016
This repository is for active development of the Azure SDK for Java. For consumers of the SDK we recommend visiting our public developer docs at https://docs.microsoft.com/java/azure/ or our versioned developer docs at https://azure.github.io/azure-sdk-for-java.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:52 commits, 3 PRs, 1 comment in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Emily's commits focus on pre-release updates and fixes within the Azure SDK for Java, primarily involving the microsoft-azure-storage module. These changes include updating the StorageEventMultiCaster.java,ServicePropertiesDeserializer.java, and modifications across various test files. The commits demonstrate a focus on release preparation, including breaking changes, and API updates, indicating active development within the storage SDK.
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