Gary Swalling
Principal Software Engineer at Tuxera
Renton, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolGary Swalling is a Principal Software Engineer with over 8 years in titled experience and a nearly three-decade engineering career rooted in embedded systems and storage software. He has progressed from design and firmware roles to senior engineering and escalation support at Microsoft, then to principal-level engineering at Tuxera, demonstrating deep expertise in Windows CE/Windows Mobile, flash/firmware, and customer-facing problem resolution. Known for bridging low-level system design with practical customer support, he repeatedly moved between hands-on development and escalation engineering to deliver robust, deployable solutions. Gary’s background in electrical engineering from the University of Washington underpins his hardware-aware software approach, making him effective on cross-disciplinary teams. Colleagues value his long-term focus on reliability and his knack for translating obscure platform bugs into maintainable fixes. Outside project titles, his career shows an uncommon blend of product-side engineering and high-stakes vendor support across multiple industry transitions.
8 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Electrical Engineering, BS, Electrical Engineering at University of Washington
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Github Skills (44)
cdr10
microsoft10
linux10
microsoft-azure10
iaas10
vms10
azure10
credential-storage9
authentication9
azure-repos9
hosting8
bitbucket8
azure-devops8
gitlab8
storage7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
gjswalling/CBL-Mariner
Oct 2022 - Dec 2024
Linux OS for Azure 1P services and edge appliances
Contributions:2 PRs, 178 pushes, 73 branches in 2 years 2 months
vmsapplianceslinux-oslinuxedge
gjswalling/azure-docs
Jan 2019 - Nov 2019
Open source documentation of Microsoft Azure
Contributions:6 pushes in 10 months
azuremicrosoft-azuremicrosoft
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