Joel Corley
Senior Recreationist
Port Angeles, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorJoel Corley is a seasoned device driver and embedded firmware engineer with decades-long roots in low-level Windows driver development, including WDM/WDF and USB protocols. A Microsoft SDE II alumnus who has contributed to the widely used microsoft/Windows-driver-samples repo, he specializes in camera, AVStream and USB pipeline improvements that span kernel and user-mode interactions. His career blends semiconductor and telecommunications experience (Texas Instruments, Samsung) with long-term firmware and EDA tooling work, giving him deep expertise in hardware-software integration. Now based in Port Angeles as a Senior Recreationist, he pairs hands-on coding instincts with pragmatic system design and debugging chops honed since the 1990s. Notably, he has a track record of modernizing legacy driver samples to newer Windows releases while addressing subtle media pipeline bugs—work that quietly benefits many driver developers.
8 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (5)
windows-driver10
camera10
c-language10
driver10
cprogramming-language10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/Windows-driver-samples
Jun 2018 - Apr 2020
This repo contains driver samples prepared for use with Microsoft Visual Studio and the Windows Driver Kit (WDK). It contains both Universal Windows Driver and desktop-only driver samples.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 5 PRs, 35 comments in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Joel primarily worked on updating and modifying driver samples related to AVStream and camera functionalities within the Windows Driver Kit (WDK). Their contributions involved code changes to the `multipinmfthelpers.cpp`, `multipinmft.cpp`, and `multipinmfthelpers.h` files, suggesting work on a multi-pin media transform filter and related helper functions. These updates included adapting samples for newer Windows releases and addressing potential pipeline bugs, especially photo confirmation and grayscale functionalities, alongside general bug fixes and code improvements.
driversmicrosoft-visual-studiodriverwindows-driverwindows
JoelCorley/windows-driver-docs
Nov 2018 - Sep 2019
The official Windows Driver Kit documentation sources
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
driversdriverwindows-driverwindowswmi
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