Eric Wolz
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarEric Wolz is a Software Engineer based in Redmond, Washington with eight years of hands-on experience building and hardening embedded and backend C systems for cloud-connected devices. As a Principal Software Engineering Manager on GitHub, he contributes heavily to Microsoft's Azure IoT C SDKs—work that spans device-side C99 code, cross-compilation for Raspberry Pi, and robust test and build infrastructure improvements. His contributions show a pragmatic focus on reliability: fixing memory leaks, null-pointer issues, SAS token handling, and integrating Valgrind and updated CI agents to catch long-running problems. Comfortable straddling embedded development, DevOps and backend networking, he turns complex low-level bugs into production-ready fixes that improve developer and device interoperability. Colleagues benefit from his blend of practical debugging skill and attention to test automation that keeps IoT services resilient at scale.
8 years of coding experience
Github Skills (14)
c1710
c9910
iot10
embedded10
cmake10
c1110
build-automation10
azure-iothub10
testing10
cicd9
microsoft-azure9
azure9
raspberry-pi9
valgrind8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-iot-sdk-c
Jan 2020 - Dec 2022
A C99 SDK for connecting devices to Microsoft Azure IoT services
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 374 reviews, 151 commits in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to the C99 SDK for Azure IoT, demonstrating a focus on device-side code. Their commits reveal work on cross-compilation for Raspberry Pi, including modifications to build scripts and configuration files. The user addressed issues in device method responses, and improved the test suites.
c99iotmicrosoft-azureazureiothub
Azure/azure-c-shared-utility
Jun 2020 - Dec 2021
Azure C SDKs common code
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:105 reviews, 19 commits, 87 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to bug fixes and code improvements within the Azure C SDK shared utility, with a focus on areas like HTTP API, SAS token handling, and socket implementations. They addressed issues related to null pointer checks, memory leaks, and compilation problems. The user also worked on build and testing infrastructure by updating the build configurations to use the latest VS2017 and Azure DevOps hosted agents, integrating Valgrind for longhaul tests and fixing issues related to static code analysis.
azurecgeneral-purposecmake
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