James Coliz is an ISV Developer Architect with nine years of hands-on experience building device-to-cloud solutions across video games, mobile, robotics, and IoT, now focusing on bringing cloud-native capabilities to the network edge. At Microsoft he partners with Independent Software Vendors to close product gaps, accelerate feature adoption, and co-launch secure, industry-focused solutions across Healthcare, Manufacturing, Retail, Telecom, and Supply Chain. He combines embedded systems expertise—demonstrated by contributions to Microsoft’s Windows IoT samples, including serial communication, WinML video processing, and an edge SqueezeNet object detection example—with a strong security and developer-experience mindset. Currently on a career break to deepen technical skills, pursue service, and spend time with family, he remains engaged in ecosystem work and strategic partnership building. Based in Seattle, he blends practical engineering, product strategy, and a curiosity for novel edge computing patterns that drive real-world impact.
Official code samples repository for Windows 10 Internet of Things (IoT)
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Contributions:92 commits, 10 PRs, 7 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:James implemented code for serial communication within the context of an IoT project. They added a `SerialWin32` code sample, which included the ability to enumerate and configure serial ports. Further contributions include adding a WinML sample, including video processing, and updates to include inference durations in the data transmitted, demonstrating hands-on experience integrating software with hardware devices, specifically those related to Windows IoT platforms. The user also added a SqueezeNet object detection example, which demonstrates the user's ability to use the Windows Machine Learning platform on an edge device.
Plaid Quickstart for .NET Blazor is a port of the official Plaid quickstart project, using the Going.Plaid client libraries for C# .NET running as a Hosted Blazor WebAssembly.
Contributions:136 commits, 112 PRs, 168 pushes in 7 months
dotnetblazor-webassemblyblazorplaid-linkcsharp
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James Coliz - ISV Developer Architect at Microsoft