Summary
Ryan Annis is a Software Engineer II at Microsoft with a decade of experience building cloud and application solutions, currently focused on Azure Virtual Desktop. A University of Waterloo computer science graduate, he has moved through internships and early-career engineering roles at SideFX, Digital Extremes, and the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research before joining Microsoft in 2019. He brings practical experience across graphics/tools, games, and web development, reflecting a versatile engineering background that informs his cloud desktop work. Based in Redmond, he pairs production-grade engineering with a pragmatic, systems-oriented mindset for scalable, user-facing infrastructure. Colleagues would describe him as steady and technically curious, often drawing on diverse domain experience to solve cross-cutting problems.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
BCS, Computer Science, BCS, Computer Science at University of Waterloo