Ryan Ries
Texas, United States
Summary
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RockstarJoseph Ries is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft with 12+ years of experience specializing in Windows internals, performance diagnostics, and root-cause debugging using WinDbg, ETW, and Windows Performance Analyzer. He turns customer-reported issues into robust OS improvements and has progressed from escalation engineer roles into senior engineering, mentoring peers and presenting to large technical audiences at Microsoft conferences. An active open-source author, he maintains tools like PassFiltEx and SnipEx and created utilities such as Lingering Object Liquidator for Active Directory, while also documenting expertise as admin of the AskDS blog. Based in Argyle, Texas, he blends deep systems-level troubleshooting with a knack for teaching—publishing articles, training colleagues, and producing a C game-development YouTube series that reveals a creative, hands-on side beyond day-to-day platform work.
12 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
2,441reputation
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9answers
38questions
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Github Skills (30)
cut10
windows10
2d-game10
active-directory10
windows-server10
reimplementation10
pause10
scripting9
newline9
linebreak9
ftp-server9
cpp9
powershell9
zeroconf8
tftp-server7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ryanries/ryanries.github.io
Aug 2022 - Jan 2026
Contributions:128 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
ryanries/PassFiltEx
May 2018 - Dec 2022
PassFiltEx. An Active Directory Password Filter.
Contributions:15 releases, 22 commits, 4 PRs in 4 years 7 months
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