Ilie Luican
Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Sammamish, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolIlie Luican is a Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft with a decade of experience building developer-facing SDKs, services, and user experiences for IoT and advertising products. He leads efforts to craft polished UIs and tooling for Microsoft’s IoT platform while drawing on deep hands-on experience writing and stabilizing Azure IoT SDKs across C, C#, Java, and Windows builds. His contributions include implementing MQTT transport in the Java SDK and resolving tricky Windows/Paho build and integration issues—work that improves reliability for large numbers of connected devices. Previously he shipped front-end and service work on AdExpert and BingAds, and he brings strong backend and embedded systems chops to managerial roles. Based in Sammamish, WA, he pairs PhD-level computer science training with practical engineering instincts honed at Microsoft and earlier roles including Google and A.I.R. Notably, he blends leadership with active low-level troubleshooting—often stepping into build and integration problems that other managers usually delegate.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at University of Illinois at Chicago
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Github Skills (26)
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java10
azure-iothub10
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netframework10
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-iot-sdks
Sep 2015 - Jun 2016
SDKs for a variety of languages and platforms that help connect devices to Microsoft Azure IoT services
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 88 commits, 7 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Ilie primarily focused on fixing and improving aspects of the Windows Paho build and addressing issues related to DeviceExplorer. The user made several updates to the build process by modifying the `build_paho.cmd` file. Additionally, the user implemented cosmetic fixes and improvements to the DeviceExplorer application, specifically addressing connection string handling and error messages.
dotnetplatformssdksazure-iotsdk
Azure/azure-iot-sdk-java
Nov 2015 - Jun 2016
A Java SDK for connecting devices to Microsoft Azure IoT services
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:48 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Ilie appears to have been focused on implementing MQTT support within the Java SDK for Azure IoT Hub. Their contributions include the initial implementation of an MQTT transport, encompassing the `MqttTransport` class and related components. Further work involved implementing the send and receive operations, with corresponding test code and fixing AMQP and MQTT related bugs. The user has also addressed code issues and improved AMQP protocol handling.
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