Ray Robles
Principal Software Engineer - Azure Silicon Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Engineering at Microsoft
Greater Phoenix Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRay Robles is a Principal Software Engineer with over a decade of deep systems and firmware expertise, currently leading Azure Silicon Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Engineering at Microsoft in the Greater Phoenix area. His career bridges cloud OS virtualization, Windows server core, and silicon/firmware integration, built on prior senior architecture roles at Intel focused on NVMe, persistent memory, SOC fabric, and security. Ray combines low-level embedded and firmware craftsmanship with cloud-scale infrastructure design, driving hardware-software co-design that helps Azure servers realize silicon capabilities. He holds both BS and MS degrees in computer systems engineering and computer science from Arizona State University and is known for translating complex platform constraints into practical, reliable solutions. A detail not obvious from titles: his background spans carrier-grade storage and mesh IP firmware as well as virtualization security, giving him a rare cross-layer vantage from silicon up to cloud services.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Engineering (B.S.E.), Computer Systems Engineering, Bachelor of Science in Engineering (B.S.E.), Computer Systems Engineering at Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University
Github Skills (15)
firmware10
uefi10
purge5
mass4
efi3
nist3
transport3
filemaker3
protocols2
sanitization2
sanitize2
nvm2
storage2
iot1
nvme1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
rayrobles/efi_media_sanitize_protocol
Apr 2022 - May 2022
Implementation of EFI Media Sanitize protocol that abstracts NIST clear and purge actions away from mass storage transport protocols. Added native NVM Express command support for FormatNVM and Sanitize. Mapped purge and clear to NVMe transport specific operations.
Contributions:37 commits, 25 pushes in 1 month
mass-storagenvmeprotocolsclearexpress
rayrobles/sxf-linux-4.3.5
Feb 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:15 commits in 1 month
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