Soemin Tjong is a Principal Development Lead with 11 years of experience (and over two decades in engineering) driving platform, networking, and cloud innovations at Microsoft. He has led teams that shipped everything from a widely deployed Bluetooth-based car infotainment stack and reliable data-center automation to Universal Print for cloud and hybrid environments. His strengths span low-level drivers and protocols (NDIS, 802.11, Bluetooth, TCP/IP) through distributed systems and web technologies, combining hands-on coding with strategic product leadership. Comfortable in startup-like, "co-founder" roles as well as large-scale corporate programs, he brings an engineer-first mindset to solving hard integration problems across hardware, edge devices, and cloud. Unusually, his career blends deep telecom/embedded networking expertise with recent cloud printing and IoT gateway modernization—making him adept at bridging legacy device ecosystems to modern cloud platforms.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Technology Management, MBA Technology Management at University of Washington
MBA TMMBA, MBA TMMBA at UW Foster School of Business
B.Sc with Distinction Computer Science, B.Sc with Distinction Computer Science at RMIT University
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Soemin Tjong - Principal Development Lead at Microsoft