Michael Burford
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Burford is a Principal Software Engineer with over two decades of hands-on experience and nine years focused on shaping the Microsoft Teams iOS app. He blends deep native mobile expertise—Swift, Objective-C, C/C++—with a long history of shipping consumer and utility software, from the GetRight download manager to early iPhone hits like FTP On The Go. An entrepreneur at heart, he still runs Headlight Software while contributing to large-scale product teams at Microsoft, showing a rare mix of indie-product intuition and enterprise engineering rigor. His background spans legacy systems to modern mobile platforms, with early Fortran and VAX roots that underline a strong systems foundation. Known for building polished, widely used tools “you’d never guess were made by a couple guys,” he excels at turning practical ideas into durable, user-facing software. Based in Seattle, he pairs pragmatic shipping velocity with architectural depth across the full stack of native app development.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
University of WashingtonBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Washington State University
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Github Skills (22)
iphone-app10
iphone9
xamarin-uwp7
angular6
php6
timeout6
css6
datatable6
primeng6
ios6
ubuntu6
xamarin-forms3
asp-net3
sdk3
csharp3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
microsoft/healthvault-ios-sdk
May 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:138 commits, 146 PRs, 229 pushes in 5 months
fixesiphoneongoingupdatesios
microsoft/healthvault-samples
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
Developer samples for Microsoft HealthVault
Contributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 10 days
microsoft
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