Rian Quinn
Senior Software Engineer (HyperV) at Microsoft
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolRian Quinn is a senior software engineer and virtualization expert with 13+ years of hands-on hypervisor/kernel development and nearly two decades of C, C++ and assembly programming. He currently contributes to Hyper-V at Microsoft and previously served as CTO of Assured Information Security, where he led IR&D, open source initiatives (co-founding the Bareflank Hypervisor) and earned multiple patents in trusted computing. His Ph.D. in Computer Engineering underpins deep technical work across trusted computing, covert communications, side-channel attacks and machine learning, and he has authored two C++ books. Beyond leadership, he actively improves tooling and quality in open source—contributing test coverage to Microsoft’s widely used Guidelines Support Library—demonstrating a blend of rigorous research, product-focused engineering, and sustained community impact.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Engineering, 3.4, BS, Computer Engineering, 3.4 at Binghamton University
English
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Github Skills (5)
unit-testing10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
testing10
cocoa6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/GSL
Aug 2016 - Apr 2018
Guidelines Support Library
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:15 commits, 18 PRs, 115 comments in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Rian primarily focused on enhancing the test suite for the `gsl` library. Their contributions include adding new tests for `gsl::span::at()`, fixing existing tests, and incorporating tests for unique and shared pointer construction of spans. The user also added tests for the `make_span()` function, expanding the testing coverage for core features. Furthermore, they addressed compiler warnings, improving the overall quality and maintainability of the code.
guidelinessupport-library
Bareflank/hypervisor_example_vpid
Mar 2016 - Mar 2019
Contributions:2 releases, 26 commits, 7 PRs in 3 years
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