Jonathan Chiu
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Bellevue, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJonathan Chiu is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years at Microsoft, advancing from test engineer to principal while shaping telemetry, platform, and cloud-integrated tooling. He is a multilingual developer fluent in C#, C++, Python, Java, JavaScript/React and XAML, with hands-on experience across Windows IoT, SDK internals, and front-end frameworks. Jonathan contributes to notable open-source work for Azure C shared utilities, adding Windows SQM support and refactoring platform logic—an example of bridging enterprise products with community projects. Based in Bellevue, WA, he blends deep systems-level troubleshooting and telemetry instrumentation with pragmatic product delivery. Colleagues rely on him for clear API design, cross-platform care, and the kind of long-term institutional knowledge that accelerates large-scale engineering teams.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Electrical/Computer Engineering, B.S., Electrical/Computer Engineering at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-New Brunswick
Github Skills (12)
c1710
text-manipulation10
windows10
strings10
c1110
microsoft-azure9
azure9
error-handling9
common-library8
c-library8
cmake8
standard-library8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-c-shared-utility
Jan 2019 - Mar 2019
Azure C SDKs common code
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 6 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Jonathan primarily focused on enhancing the `platform_get_platform_info` function within the Azure C shared utility. Their contributions involved adding support for retrieving SQM (System Quality Metrics) information on Windows platforms by accessing the Windows registry. They also refactored the function to use an enum for options and fixed string concatenation logic. Finally, the user made minor adjustments to platform-specific implementations and added comments for clarity.
cmakesdkssdkazuregeneral-purpose
ms-iot/securitysystem
Aug 2015 - Oct 2015
Security system built on Windows IoT Core
Contributions:63 commits, 1 PR, 4 comments in 2 months
windowssecurityiot-corewindows-iotiot
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