Joe Burks
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Bothell, Washington, United States
Summary
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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 (21)
adapter9
bit8
sd-card7
apple27
source-port7
embedded7
8-bit7
kernel6
opensuse6
emulation5
libretro5
cpp4
arduino4
firmware3
spi3
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jburks/box16
Jan 2022 - Nov 2025
A fork of the official X16 emulator, converted to C++17 and with a bunch of features tweaked and added.
Contributions:13 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 10 months
emulatorcppcpp17convertedcpp-library
jburks/x16-rom
Apr 2022 - May 2023
Contributions:4 PRs, 46 pushes, 15 branches in 1 year 1 month
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