Rudy Huyn
Principal Lead Architect at Microsoft
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolRudy Huyn is a Principal Lead Architect at Microsoft with nine years of professional experience designing and leading architecture for the Microsoft Store and its services from San Francisco. A former founder and CEO who built Top 10 Windows Phone apps, he blends entrepreneurial product instincts with deep platform expertise across Windows, UWP and win32. At Dropbox he drove Windows-focused engineering including UWP and desktop distribution, and he continues to contribute to high-profile open-source projects like Microsoft's MSIX packaging SDK and the Windows Calculator, improving installer robustness, UI behavior and conversion logic. Known for fixing subtle issues—from certificate handling and memory corruption to UI scaling and format bugs—he brings a pragmatic, detail-oriented approach to shipping resilient end-to-end software.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (23)
c-language10
cert10
windows10
uwp10
msix10
ui-design10
uid10
certificate10
front-end-development10
cprogramming-language10
winapi9
xaml9
wp-api9
ws-api9
dotnet-core8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/calculator
Mar 2019 - Dec 2020
Windows Calculator: A simple yet powerful calculator that ships with Windows
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 112 commits, 168 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Rudy primarily contributed to improving the Windows Calculator's functionality and code quality. Their work included modifying unit selection for conversions, fixing compilation issues, optimizing date difference calculations, and addressing formatting issues in the currency converter. They also enhanced the user interface by hiding the history button in programmer mode and addressing issues with text display and scaling.
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microsoft/msix-packaging
Mar 2019 - May 2019
MSIX SDK
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 13 PRs, 23 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Rudy primarily focused on enhancing the `win7MsixInstaller` component, making it compatible with self-signed packages. This involved modifying the code to handle certificates and publisher names correctly and addressing memory corruption issues. Additionally, the user contributed to the UI, making the checkbox background transparent and fixing UI drawing issues related to window minimization. Furthermore, the user worked on supporting installation via IStream instead of just file paths, and also worked to update the UI to reflect the version number.
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