Jacob Friedman
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Friedman is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years at Microsoft specializing in OS composition, manufacturing tooling, and low-level firmware for cloud hardware. He led the open-source Factory Orchestrator project, a cross-platform .NET Core service used to organize and log system-level tasks, and has deep experience enabling Windows Core-based manufacturing scenarios. Jacob combines kernel debugging and embedded C expertise with higher-level .NET/UWP and scripting skills, bridging driver/firmware bring-up to production manufacturing flows. His work spans secure boot, RAM-bootable manufacturing OSes, and partner-facing kits that simplify OS image composition and validation. Based in Redmond, he pairs product leadership with hands-on engineering across OneCore and Cloud Hardware Infrastructure, often acting as the technical interface for OEM and partner integration. An OS “ninja,” he quietly shapes both internal tooling and public open-source tooling used by device manufacturers.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison
English
Github Skills (53)
factory10
testing10
windows10
uwp10
linux10
cross-platform10
validation10
ipc10
code-injection10
testing-library10
taef10
orchestration10
remote-execution10
fault10
diagnostics10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/FactoryOrchestrator
Jul 2020 - Dec 2022
A cross-platform system service which provides a simple way to run and manage factory line validation, developer inner-loop, diagnostics, and fault analysis workflows.
Contributions:8 releases, 70 reviews, 294 commits in 2 years 5 months
faultwindows-10testing-libraryuwptesting-framework
spaceisfun/FactoryOrchestrator
Jul 2020 - Dec 2022
A tool to help device manufacturers test their devices
Contributions:1 release, 8 PRs, 670 pushes in 2 years 5 months
android
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