Henry Fox
Software Development Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolHenry Fox is a Software Development Engineer with a decade of experience building low-level, performance-focused systems at Microsoft’s Operating Systems Group in Redmond. He combines deep optimization and reliability work with a user-centered mindset, aiming to deliver fluid experiences that help people—large or small—get more from computing. Earlier roles at Penn State show a knack for practical product improvements: he built tools that cut help-desk resolution times by over 40% and shipped backend services for educational applications. Henry is also an open-source contributor to Microsoft’s WinObjC project, extending Objective-C support on Windows by implementing percent-encoding and date-localization features. Colleagues describe him as driven by a genuine desire to help others, blending technical rigor with empathy and a long-term passion for expanding access to technology.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Penn State University
Spanish
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Github Skills (9)
objective-c10
ws-api10
winapi10
wp-api10
encoding9
corefoundation9
text-encoding9
character-encoding9
unit-testing8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/WinObjC
Nov 2015 - Feb 2018
Objective-C for Windows
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 79 commits, 96 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Henry implemented functionality for NSCharacterSet-URL*CharacterSet and for percent encoding in NSString. These changes involved creating static functions, implementing character sets, and testing the proper encoding and replacement of characters. They also implemented the localizedStringFromDate method for the NSDateFormatter. These changes were focused on extending Objective-C support for Windows.
objective-cwindows
MSFTFox/WinObjC
Jul 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:187 commits, 2 PRs, 228 pushes in 1 year 6 months
objective-cwindows
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