James Coliz
ISV Developer Architect at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorJames 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.
9 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
60reputation
4kreached
4answers
2questions
Github Skills (19)
machine-learning10
internet-of-things10
iot10
windows-iot10
dotnet-core10
object-detection10
serial-communication10
csharp10
edge-computing9
netcore8
wp-api8
winapi8
ws-api8
blazor6
wpf6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/Windows-iotcore-samples
Dec 2018 - Feb 2019
Official code samples repository for Windows 10 Internet of Things (IoT)
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions: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.
internet-of-thingsiotwindowsms-iot
jcoliz/OFXSharp
Aug 2021 - Sep 2022
.NET Standard library to parse OFX Files into plain C# objects. Includes changes to handle OFX files given by banks which don't strictly adhere to the OFX specification.
Contributions:11 releases, 61 commits, 23 PRs in 1 year 1 month
csharpdotnetofx
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