Paul Schofield is a Senior Software Engineer with over a decade at Microsoft, specializing in HSM-backed cryptographic services, key management, and secure storage across Windows and cloud environments. He combines deep hands-on experience in native C/C++ and C# with practical expertise in TPMs, smart cards, certificate authority management, and SDL-driven security audits. His background spans SDET and engineering roles where he built automation for cryptographic feature testing and defect prevention, bringing a tester’s rigor to production security code. Based in Redmond, he continues to sharpen his specialization in computer security and cryptography while learning something new every day—a habit that fuels both steady technical depth and attention to operational robustness.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc., Computer Science, B.Sc., Computer Science at Trent University
M.Sc, Computer Science, M.Sc, Computer Science at Queen's University
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Paul Schofield - Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft