Rachel Menge
Software Engineer 2 at Microsoft
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRachel Menge is a Software Engineer 2 at Microsoft with 11 years of experience building embedded and Linux-based systems, currently contributing to CBL-Mariner and Azure Linux for first-party services and edge appliances. She combines a strong academic foundation (BS and MS from University of Michigan) with hands-on firmware and OS work—implementing user-management features, tests, and documentation in a prominent Microsoft open-source repo. Her background spans teaching embedded control labs, research on interactive sensing projects, and industrial internships at Garmin and dSPACE where she built simulators, tooling, and ML/SLAM educational labs. Comfortable across C, C++, Python, and system-level tooling, she excels at turning low-level requirements into maintainable platform code. Notably, she brings an educator’s clarity to complex systems, having created student-facing materials and videos that improve team knowledge transfer and onboarding.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering, Graduated, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering, Graduated at University of Michigan College of EngineeringAnn Arbor Pioneer High School
Github Skills (6)
user-management10
go10
system-configuration10
linux-kernel10
testing9
go-testing9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/azurelinux
Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
General purpose Linux OS for Azure
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:901 reviews, 147 commits, 851 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Rachel implemented features related to user management within the Azure Linux OS. They introduced a user configuration file with password expiration settings, including the ability to set passwords to never expire. They also added corresponding tests to validate user settings and documentation for the user field in SystemConfigs. The user modified the installutils code to incorporate the hidepid option.
azurelinux
microsoft/CBL-Mariner-Linux-Kernel
May 2021 - Sep 2025
The source for the Linux kernel used in CBL-Mariner
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 4 years 4 months
linux-kernel
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