George Mileka is a seasoned Senior Software Engineer with over 20 years at Microsoft and nine years of focused experience across IoT, cloud SDKs, DevOps, and graphics tooling. Based in Redmond, he has driven Azure device management integration for Windows IoT, contributed AMQP and protocol compatibility to the popular Azure IoT C# SDK, and optimized Linux build pipelines with ccache and Azure Blob Storage integration. His background spans low-level C++ libraries, Visual Studio capture/replay engines for DX11/DX12, and embedded IoT client work, giving him a rare blend of systems, tooling, and cloud-edge expertise. Notably, he combines production-grade development with build and release automation experience, enabling faster, more reliable delivery for both device and server-side systems.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Engineering, BSc Computer Engineering at Alexandria University
Linux OS for Azure 1P services and edge appliances
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
Contributions:500 reviews, 2 commits, 134 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:George primarily focused on improving the performance and functionality of the build system, specifically related to ccache. Their contributions included adding support for downloading/uploading ccache archives, managing and removing older archives, and integrating with Azure Blob Storage. They also worked on enhancing the scheduling process and containerization of the build environment. The user's work led to optimized build processes, reducing build times and improving resource utilization.
A C# SDK for connecting devices to Microsoft Azure IoT services
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:12 commits, 9 PRs, 9 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:George primarily contributed to the C# SDK for Azure IoT services, focusing on enabling AMQP support and refactoring and clean-up. Their work included modifying project files, updating device client functionalities, and removing unused namespaces. The user also addressed code review comments and switched the default protocol to Http for PCL to accommodate Android compatibility.
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George Mileka - Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft