Summary
James Asbury is a Software Engineer 2 at Microsoft with nine years of systems-focused engineering experience and an MS in Computer Science from Cal Poly SLO. His graduate thesis and open-source project Millipyde showcase expertise in GPGPU pipelines and on-device image augmentation, pairing Python front-ends with C/C++ backends on AMD ROCm. At Microsoft he builds Azure Stack Edge / Azure Local capabilities after internships and firmware work at Intel, Keysight, and Northrop Grumman, reflecting a strong background in OS, systems programming, and storage/firmware validation. He maintains a GitHub with projects ranging from GPU frameworks to a work-in-progress RTOS kernel, signaling deep low-level curiosity beyond cloud services. Colleagues can expect a pragmatic engineer who bridges research-grade prototypes and production systems, with published white papers and collaborative engineering experience.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo