Michael Peterson
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolMichael Peterson is a Senior Software Engineer based in Vancouver with a B.A.Sc. in Computer Engineering and roughly three years of professional experience augmented by earlier senior and lead roles at Ensemble Systems. He has a broad technical palette spanning embedded firmware and control logic to high-level languages (C/C++, Python, C#, JavaScript) and hardware description (VHDL, 8051 assembly), and enjoys turning algorithmic concepts into reliable embedded systems. At Ensemble he progressed from developer to technical architect and team lead, and now brings that hands-on, cross-stack expertise to Microsoft. His project background includes autonomous robotics and vehicle systems (rover, fighting robot, sailboat) and consumer apps, showing a practical blend of control systems, firmware, and application development. Known for clean engineering and systems thinking, he focuses on algorithm development and maintainable firmware for constrained devices.
3 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer Engineering-Software Option, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer Engineering-Software Option at The University of British Columbia / UBC
Github Skills (60)
azure-authentication10
dotnet10
component-library10
dotnet-core10
fsharp10
csharp10
react10
identity9
authentication9
typescript9
command-line-utility9
auth9
powershell9
azure8
msal8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mijpeterson/react
Oct 2022 - Oct 2022
An implementation of GitHub's Primer Design System using React
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
primerreactprimer-designdesign-systemtypescript
AzureAD/microsoft-authentication-cli
Jan 2024 - Mar 2025
A command line utility for Azure authentication.
Contributions:83 reviews, 27 PRs, 112 pushes in 1 year 2 months
azure-functionsauthenticationcommand-line-utilityazure-authenticationidentity
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