Scott Mosier
Principal Software Design Engineer at Microsoft
Bellevue, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolScott Mosier is a Principal Software Design Engineer at Microsoft with over two decades at the company and a decade of focused engineering experience. He specializes in low-level runtime and memory management, contributing to the .NET CoreRT project where he implemented and integrated garbage collection and finalizer logic to improve AOT runtime robustness. Based in Bellevue, WA, he brings a hardware-aware perspective from a Computer Engineering degree at UIUC to complex systems programming challenges. Known for shipping durable runtime fixes and handling tricky corner cases, he blends pragmatic engineering with deep knowledge of runtime internals. Quietly, his work often lives behind the scenes—stabilizing foundations that higher-level services rely on.
10 years of coding experience
BS, Computer Engineering, BS, Computer Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (8)
memory-management10
run-time10
c-language10
runtimes10
cprogramming-language10
sys10
runtime-environment10
garbage-collection10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
dotnet/corert
Oct 2015 - Jul 2016
This repo contains CoreRT, an experimental .NET Core runtime optimized for AOT (ahead of time compilation) scenarios, with the accompanying compiler toolchain.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:27 commits, 11 PRs, 4 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily contributed to the CoreRT runtime, focusing on the garbage collection (GC) and related runtime components. They hooked up GC sources to runtime sources, wired up finalizer code, and added runtime-specific scanning code. The contributions involved modifications to `gc.cpp`, `gcrhenv.cpp`, and related headers to integrate GC functionalities with the rest of the runtime system, with an emphasis on improving functionality related to memory management. The commits also contain changes to make the runtime build more robust to handle various corner cases.
dotnetcompilationahead-of-timeruntimetoolchain
smosier/corert
Nov 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:46 pushes, 4 branches, 4 comments in 1 month
dotnetcompilationahead-of-timeruntimetoolchain
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