Mike Mcadams
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Mcadams is a Principal Software Engineer in the Greater Seattle area with over a decade of experience building and stabilizing complex back-end systems at Microsoft. He focuses on identity privacy features today and has deep, practical expertise in OS-level diagnostics, crash dump analysis, memory management, and build/signing automation—contributions visible in high-profile .NET runtime and diagnostics projects like dotnet/runtime and microsoft/clrmd. His work blends hands-on bug-fixing and tooling (improving crash reporting, cross-platform core dump handling, and build pipeline tasks) with operational awareness from live-site monitoring and performance engineering. Trained originally as a civil engineer, he brings a methodical, systems-thinking approach to software reliability and cross-platform interoperability.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Civil Engineering, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Civil Engineering at The University of Texas at AustinBachelor of Engineering (BE) Civil Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Civil Engineering at University of MaineRandolph HS
Github Skills (26)
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debugging10
debug10
c-language10
zip-archive10
runtimes10
net10
memory-management10
linux10
dotnet10
run-time10
asp-net10
build-automation10
dotnet-core10
macos10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/clrmd
Feb 2019 - Dec 2022
Microsoft.Diagnostics.Runtime is a set of APIs for introspecting processes and dumps.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:61 reviews, 37 commits, 71 PRs in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Mike primarily contributed to fixing bugs and improving the stability and functionality of the `microsoft/clrmd` project. Their commits focus on addressing issues related to the retrieval and handling of debug information on Linux and MacOS systems, specifically in relation to core dump analysis. Key contributions include fixing issues with DAC names, core dump readers, and build ID retrieval across different operating systems and architectures, as well as general improvements in the ability to parse and process module information.
dotnetruntimeetwmicrosoftdumps
dotnet/runtime
Feb 2015 - Jan 2023
.NET is a cross-platform runtime for cloud, mobile, desktop, and IoT apps.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:469 reviews, 523 commits, 288 PRs in 8 years
Contributions summary:Mike primarily worked on fixing bugs and enhancing the .NET runtime, specifically within the coreclr project. Their commits focused on addressing issues related to crash dumps and memory management, including changes to the debug information store and code version manager. The user also implemented improvements to the crash report generation, including adding the runtime file version to the crash report and fixing stack frame enumeration problems.
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