Kevin Williams
Software Development Engineer II at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Williams is a Software Development Engineer II at Microsoft with eight years of experience building developer tools and distributed systems from the compiler and language level up to backend services. He has deep experience with X++ and the CDS metamodels from his work modernizing Dynamics AX tooling, and currently contributes to BuildXL where he implemented gRPC-based cross-machine content copy, distributed cache features and compression for scalable file transfer. Comfortable across C#, C/C++, and systems-level tooling, he brings a researcher's attention to language design and correctness from his MS work on extensible language extensions and origin tracking. Based in Redmond, he combines long-term product ownership with hands-on contributions to open-source infrastructure inside Microsoft, and has a pattern of turning compiler and metamodel complexity into practical, backwards-compatible developer experiences.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Computer Science, Mathematics, B.A., Computer Science, Mathematics at Luther CollegeUniversity of Minnesota Twin Cities
English
Github Skills (6)
file-transfer10
caching10
distributed-systems10
csharp10
grpc10
dotnet-core10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/BuildXL
Apr 2019 - Jun 2021
Microsoft Build Accelerator
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:51 commits, 97 PRs, 45 pushes in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Kevin implemented and tested gRPC-based content copy functionality, enabling file transfers beyond the local machine. They also contributed to the distributed cache service by adding functionality for copying files between separate Windows machines, integrating with the Hello command, and incorporating compression features. Additionally, the user refactored code related to path transformations, and added the delete content command to the grpc cas.
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kewilli/BuildXL
Mar 2019 - Aug 2019
Microsoft Build Accelerator
Contributions:2 PRs, 42 pushes, 38 branches in 4 months
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