Sam Walker
Senior Software Developer at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Walker is a Senior Software Developer with nine years of experience at Microsoft, currently contributing to the Xbox PC app and shared platform components from Seattle. He brings solid mobile and iOS roots—shaped by internships and co-op roles at Microsoft and IBM—and a strong academic foundation in computer science from RIT (3.76 GPA). Sam's background in robotics and human-robot interaction research gives him a practical appreciation for user-centered automation and systems that gracefully handle human handoffs. At Microsoft since 2015 he has matured into a cross-functional engineer who balances platform-level thinking with ship-ready implementation. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who prefers building reliable user experiences over flashy prototypes.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, 3.76, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, 3.76 at Rochester Institute of Technology
Github Skills (12)
xbox-live10
xbox8
overlap8
api7
abstraction6
abstraction-layer6
mixer5
websocket5
apply4
microsoft4
chat3
client-library3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mixer/client-websocket
Mar 2019 - May 2019
Client library for interacting with Mixer's chat websocket.
Contributions:12 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 month
client-librarychatwebsocketwebsocket-chatmixer
sawalkerXbox/libHttpClient
Oct 2019 - Oct 2019
libHttpClient provides a platform abstraction layer for HTTP and WebSocket, and is designed for use by the Microsoft Xbox Live Service API (XSAPI) [https://github.com/Microsoft/xbox-live-api] and game devs. If you want to contribute to the project, please talk to us to avoid overlap.
Contributions:5 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
apixboxxbox-livedevswebsocket
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