Sam Kristoff
Principal Software Engineer Manager - Azure Compute at Microsoft
Woodbury, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolSam Kristoff is a principal software engineering leader with 13 years of experience blending low-level firmware, embedded hardware, and cloud-native systems to deliver scalable products. Currently driving architecture and teams for Azure Compute at Microsoft, he has a track record of building high-performance engineering organizations and shipping complex R&D products at NI and startup scale. He co-founded a hardware+cloud startup where he designed modular instrumentation, wireless mesh gateways, and end-to-end cloud pipelines for anomaly detection, demonstrating full-stack product ownership from PCB to production services. Sam excels at translating business needs into maintainable architectures—whether optimizing microcontrollers, architecting IoT ingestion at petabyte scale, or owning CI/CD and cloud infrastructure. Known for hands-on coding and mentoring leaders, he brings a rare cross-domain fluency that accelerates delivery across firmware, drivers, web, and cloud. Based in Woodbury, MN, he combines entrepreneurial grit with enterprise-grade process and technical depth.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Engineering, BS Computer Engineering at University of Minnesota
Github Skills (101)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Digilent/dokuwiki-infobox
Apr 2016 - Nov 2022
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Contributions:6 commits, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 8 months
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MakerHub/Nest-Thermostat
Mar 2014 - Apr 2015
Contributions:2 commits, 3 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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