Joe Burks
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Bothell, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJoe Burks is a Senior Software Engineer with 23 years of cross-domain experience spanning low-level OS and driver development, firmware/RTL validation, real-time embedded systems, and high-level application engineering. He has spent the last decade-plus driving display and color-accuracy software for Microsoft Surface and HoloLens products, owning solutions used from high-volume manufacturing calibration to retail shipping drivers. Comfortable working at the hardware–software boundary, Joe ships everything from assembly and C/C++ drivers to C# and Python tooling and has validated designs in FPGA simulators and pre-silicon environments. His background includes leading power-management validation at Intel for Xeon Phi and inventing visualization and validation tools that exposed firmware behavior in simulation. Known for technical leadership under tight, ambiguous requirements, he balances uncompromising quality where it matters with pragmatic tradeoffs to deliver product-ready systems. Located in Bothell, WA, he brings a rare combination of display optics expertise and low-level systems craftsmanship.
23 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
California State University, Sacramento
English
Github Skills (27)
adapter9
sd-card8
atmega7
embedded7
bit7
kernel6
8-bit6
apple26
libretro6
linux-kernel6
source-port6
emulation5
cpp5
opensuse5
linux4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jburks/vera-module
Mar 2022 - Dec 2024
Versatile Embedded Retro Adapter
Contributions:45 pushes, 33 branches in 2 years 9 months
retroversatileadapterembedded
X16Community/vera-module
Mar 2023 - Jan 2025
Versatile Embedded Retro Adapter
Contributions:4 releases, 21 reviews, 12 PRs in 1 year 9 months
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