Mark Niehaus
Senior Lead Developer at Microsoft Corporation
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Niehaus is a Senior Lead Developer based in Seattle with over a decade of experience building parallel, high-performance systems, compilers, and debuggers for large-scale cloud deployments. He has a long tenure at Microsoft and prior development roles at Cray and Tera, giving him deep domain expertise in HPC architectures and system software. Mark combines hands-on engineering with leadership in shipping production-grade tooling that optimizes performance across distributed environments. His academic foundation (BS/MS in Computer Science from the University of Washington) underpins a pragmatic approach to complex problems spanning compiler technology to cloud-native services. Known for bridging low-level systems thinking with practical deployment strategies, he often surfaces subtle performance wins that compound at scale.
10 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Computer Science, Master of Science Computer Science at University of Washington
Github Skills (58)
intune10
windows10
windows-update10
linux10
mdt10
windows-server10
command-line10
powershell10
livecd10
ext49
fedora9
dnf9
macos9
shell9
netcore9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mtniehaus/AutopilotBranding
Apr 2019 - Sep 2020
Contributions:5 releases, 6 reviews, 20 commits in 1 year 5 months
microsoft/WindowsAutopilotCompanion
Dec 2018 - Aug 2020
Sample companion app for working with Windows Autopilot "White Glove" workflows
Contributions:24 commits, 11 pushes, 12 comments in 1 year 7 months
windows
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