Hideyuki Nagase
Principal Software Design Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarHideyuki Nagase is a Principal Software Design Engineer based in Redmond with over 10 years (and a long Microsoft tenure) building graphics, OS, and AI platform components for Windows across Direct3D, WDDM, and WSLg. He specializes in low-level systems and drivers, with hands-on contributions to Microsoft projects that span graphics driver power management, ACPI parsing, and improving WSLg stability and debugging. At Microsoft he has driven cross-cutting work from mobile Direct3D to cloud and AI platform graphics, routinely shipping kernel- and user-space fixes that improve platform reliability. Colleagues rely on him for deep protocol and systems knowledge as well as pragmatic engineering that enables diagnosticability (e.g., core-dump and stderr redirection work for WSLg). He brings a rare combination of historical Windows graphics expertise and current platform-level engineering focus, making him a go-to lead for complex system interactions.
10 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (24)
debugging10
administrator10
debug10
c-language10
admin10
rdp10
graphic10
power-management10
kernel10
system10
administration10
device-driver10
driver10
sys10
remote-desktop10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/wslg
Sep 2020 - Dec 2022
Enabling the Windows Subsystem for Linux to include support for Wayland and X server related scenarios
Role in this project:
Back-end & System Engineer
Back-end & System EngineerContributions:20 releases, 71 reviews, 81 commits in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Hideyuki primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and stability of the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSLg) project. Their contributions included redirecting standard error streams for debugging, moving components from other projects to WSLg, and enabling core dumps for debugging purposes. They also addressed several bug fixes, updated the build process, and improved the interaction between WSLg and the RDP client.
cygwinwaylandvdiwindows-subsystemwindows
microsoft/graphics-driver-samples
Sep 2015 - Mar 2016
This repository contains graphics driver samples used to demonstrate how to write graphics driver for the windows platform.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:116 commits, 2 PRs, 94 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Hideyuki has been actively involved in the development of graphics driver samples for the Windows platform, focusing on power management features. Their work includes adding power management stubs, implementing power state tracking, and integrating ACPI parser functions. These changes involve modifications to core driver files, indicating a focus on low-level system interactions.
driversdriverwindowsgraphics
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