Michael Nelte
PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENG LEAD at Microsoft
Spokane, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Nelte is a principal software engineering leader at Microsoft with over two decades of experience building reliable, high-performance systems and coaching teams to greater impact. He blends hands-on architecture and coding with data-driven product strategy, owning telemetry and large-scale Azure data pipelines to surface actionable business insights. His work has measurably improved Windows reliability and responsiveness—from dramatic reductions in win32k blue screens and faster WinAppSDK builds to touch input latency improvements dating back to Windows 8. A pragmatic engineer who insists on using his own software, he also brings security-first thinking, having founded the Exchange Security Team and developed fuzzing and static-analysis tooling. He pairs performance and reliability wins with developer productivity improvements (notably halving build times) and is exploring AI model management to elevate the Windows experience.
5 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at University of Cape Town
Github Skills (16)
windows10
uwp10
winrt10
nuget10
windows-app-sdk10
wpf10
winui10
cpp10
sdk10
csharp10
windows-desktop10
windows-app10
windows-ui10
desktop10
dotnet9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
microsoft/WindowsAppSDK
Oct 2020 - Dec 2020
The Windows App SDK empowers all Windows desktop apps with modern Windows UI, APIs, and platform features, including back-compat support, shipped via NuGet.
Contributions:12 reviews, 6 commits, 4 PRs in 1 month
desktop-appswindows-10windows-11windows-app-sdkwindows-app
qmatteoq/WindowsAppSDK-Samples
Dec 2020 - Dec 2020
API samples for the Windows App SDK
Contributions:3 commits in 1 day
apiapp-sdkwinui3windowssdk
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