Rick Winter
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolRick Winter is a Principal Software Engineer with over a decade of experience building scalable cloud and developer-facing systems, currently leading the Azure SDK efforts for Go, Rust, Embedded C, and C++ at Microsoft. He combines deep systems and languages expertise (Python, Perl, C#, C++) with product lifecycle and scalability experience, having founded and led Azure Notebooks and designed its container scaling infrastructure. Based in Los Angeles, he excels at creating language-idiomatic SDKs that empower developers across diverse platforms and constrained environments. Rick’s background in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Vanderbilt informs a hardware-aware approach to software, particularly valuable for embedded SDK work. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture, cross-team leadership, and shipping production-ready libraries that balance developer ergonomics with cloud-scale reliability.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
BEEE Electrical Engineering Computer Science, BEEE Electrical Engineering Computer Science at Vanderbilt UniversityHigh School, High School at Cheyenne Mountain High School
Github Skills (24)
notebook10
python10
azure-sdk10
azure-functions10
ptvs10
policies10
iot10
sdk10
visual-studio10
azure-services10
embedded10
azure10
cpp10
jupyter9
microsoft9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
gilbertw/azure-sdk-for-cpp
Jun 2020 - Jun 2020
This repository is for active development of the Azure SDK for C++.
Contributions:10 pushes, 4 branches in 16 days
cppazure-sdksdkazure
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