Heidi Howard
Senior Researcher at University of Cambridge
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolHeidi Howard is a senior researcher with 13 years' experience specializing in distributed systems, currently splitting her time between Microsoft and the University of Cambridge. With a Cambridge PhD and a long lineage of research roles at the university and industry partnerships with VMware, she bridges rigorous academic methods and practical engineering. Her work spans formal specification, system architecture and documentation—she has contributed to high-profile open-source projects like Microsoft’s Confidential Consortium Framework by improving architecture docs and TLA+ specs. Known for clarifying complex designs, she combines deep theory with attention to developer-facing details that make distributed systems more auditable and usable.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Cambridge
Github Skills (9)
documentation10
tlaplus9
tla9
cpp4
typescripts3
javascript3
typescript3
governance3
typescript-types3
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/CCF
Apr 2022 - Nov 2022
Confidential Consortium Framework
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:266 reviews, 11 commits, 123 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Heidi's contributions primarily involved updating and correcting documentation within the repository. They made improvements to the architecture documentation, fixed typos in built-in map descriptions, and reworded sentences to enhance clarity. Additionally, the user updated URLs and made minor modifications to TLA+ specifications related to the project's core functionalities. Their work appears focused on improving the project's documentation and specifications for other contributors and users.
cppconfidentialityjavascriptframeworkintegrity
fpaxos/fpaxos-tlaplus
Aug 2016 - Oct 2022
TLA+ specification of Flexible Paxos
Contributions:42 commits, 2 PRs, 43 pushes in 6 years 2 months
model-checkinginfinibanddistributed-algorithmstla-specificationpaxos
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