Robert Mikhayelyan
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolRobert Mikhayelyan is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft with a decade of experience building low-level and graphics-forward systems, currently contributing to the Windows Composition team from Seattle. He brings deep expertise in Rust, C++, DirectX, C#, and XAML, and has made notable open-source contributions to the high-profile windows-rs project—adding composition samples, fixing attribute parsing bugs, and implementing vector/matrix math. His background in computer science and philosophy with a mathematics minor gives him a rigorous, analytical approach to design and correctness. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic solutions that bridge systems programming and UI composition, and he has a particular knack for turning subtle graphics and interop issues into reliable, testable code.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science and Philosophy Major / Mathematics Minor, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science and Philosophy Major / Mathematics Minor at Augustana College (SD)
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Github Skills (15)
windows10
rust10
ws-api10
winapi10
wp-api10
winrt10
testing9
parse8
parsing8
windows-phone6
windows-runtime6
composition6
xaml6
directx6
imaging6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/windows-rs
Feb 2020 - Aug 2020
Rust for Windows
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 4 commits, 5 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Robert primarily contributed to the `windows-rs` repository, focused on implementing features within the Rust for Windows project. Their work included adding a simple composition sample and updating a composition test to ensure it runs and passes. The user also addressed a bug related to named arguments in attribute parsing, demonstrating a focus on code correctness and functionality. Finally, they implemented basic math operations for numerics, specifically focusing on Vector and Matrix structures.
rustwindowswindows-service
robmikh/SimpleRecorder
Feb 2019 - Nov 2021
A simple screen recorder using both the Windows.Graphics.Capture and Windows.Media.Transcoding APIs.
Contributions:4 releases, 73 commits, 7 PRs in 2 years 9 months
windowstranscodingscreen-recorderrecordergraphics
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