Sean Mcdowell
Senior SDE at Microsoft
Duvall, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSean Mcdowell is a seasoned Senior SDE with over 30 years of hands-on experience across mini- and microcomputers, and currently focused on Windows Embedded platform fundamentals at Microsoft. He has shipped production software across the full stack—from device drivers and kernel-level VxDs to managed C# UIs—particularly in multimedia and digital video broadcasting. A long history of cross-platform work (DirectShow, Media Center, printing systems) pairs with modern contributions to Microsoft's Windows IoT Core samples, where he improved .NET Core compatibility and modularized shared libraries. Sean combines deep low-level debugging and systems design skills with a practical focus on delivery, and has a track record of turning prototypes and platform architectures into ship-ready products. Based in Duvall, WA, he brings uncommon breadth: embedded firmware and DSLs for printer cartridges through contemporary IoT sample engineering.
8 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics, Mathematics at Kennesaw State University
Github Skills (5)
netcore10
iot10
internet-of-things10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/Windows-iotcore-samples
Dec 2018 - Jun 2019
Official code samples repository for Windows 10 Internet of Things (IoT)
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:149 commits, 19 PRs, 9 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Sean primarily focused on enhancing and maintaining the code samples within the Windows 10 IoT repository. Their contributions included cleaning up documentation inconsistencies, ensuring proper functionality with .NET Core 2.2, and establishing a common shared library for the project. Furthermore, the user added features and bug fixes such as the addition of new messages in the common message library and the implementation of direct method calls in the GPIO module. These changes demonstrate a focus on code quality and modularity.
windowsms-iotmqttwindows-10internet
seanmcd-msft/iotedge
Oct 2018 - Mar 2020
The IoT Edge OSS project
Contributions:4 PRs, 34 pushes, 12 branches in 1 year 5 months
ossmqttedgeiot-platformiot-edge
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