Huzaifa Danish
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHuzaifa Danish is a software engineer with nine years of experience building high-impact systems at companies including Microsoft and Goldman Sachs, and a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Florida. At Microsoft he contributes to the Windows App SDK, adding PowerNotification APIs, C# projections, and telemetry to modernize desktop app power management. His background spans cloud security at Intel Security—where he delivered performance and logging improvements—and a Google Summer of Code project adding 3D/VR playback to VLC, showing a blend of systems, security, and multimedia expertise. Known for fast delivery in high-paced environments, he excels at both independent feature development and cross-team integration. Comfortable shipping production-quality backend code, he also brings an academic rigor (3.8 MS GPA) and a knack for pragmatic optimizations that measurably improve performance. Based in Redmond, WA, he combines enterprise-scale product experience with open-source contributions to widely used platforms.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer and Information Sciences, General, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer and Information Sciences, General at Bangalore Institute Of TechnologyMaster’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.8, Master’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.8 at University of Florida
English
Github Skills (15)
c1710
video-processing10
application-framework10
windows10
app-framework10
multimedia10
web-framework10
winui10
csharp10
c1110
power-management10
dotnet-core10
lgpl9
cpp9
telemetry8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/WindowsAppSDK
Mar 2021 - Mar 2022
The Windows App SDK empowers all Windows desktop apps with modern Windows UI, APIs, and platform features, including back-compat support, shipped via NuGet.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:67 reviews, 117 commits, 33 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Huzaifa primarily contributed to the development of PowerNotifications features within the Windows App SDK. They added PowerNotification APIs, C# projections, and telemetry to the project. The user also addressed un-register issues and added a non-async method for getting effective power mode, expanding the available functionalities.
desktop-appswindows-10windows-11windows-app-sdkwindows-app
microsoft/DevHomeAzureExtension
Nov 2023 - Oct 2024
Dev Home Azure Extension
Contributions:105 reviews, 34 PRs, 132 pushes in 10 months
azureazure-devopsdev-home
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