Stephen Hufnagel
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolStephen Hufnagel is a Principal Software Engineer with over a decade at Microsoft focused on hypervisor and subsystem engineering, currently driving core development for the Microsoft Hypervisor, Windows Hypervisor Platform, and Windows Subsystem for Linux. He designs and implements low-level virtualization features—arm64 ports, trusted launch, VTLs, guest VSM scenarios, interrupt handling, and nested virtualization—while co-authoring specifications and tooling for kernel and hypervisor refactoring. His background began in test and validation, which informs a relentless emphasis on test infrastructure, quality, and deployment automation across complex kernel and platform stacks. A practiced mentor and hiring contributor, he also champions diversity, inclusion, and a growth mindset within engineering teams. Based in the Greater Seattle Area, he brings systems programming expertise in C, C++, and assembly and a rare combination of deep kernel-level craftsmanship with pragmatic test-driven delivery.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at University of Michigan
Stackoverflow
1reputation
0reached
0answers
0questions
Github Skills (15)
wsl210
consumption10
code-documentation9
windows9
api8
api-documentation8
windows-subsystem-for-linux8
cygwin8
hyper-v7
scenarios7
subsystem7
vdi7
linux4
x114
wayland4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
stehufntdev/sdk-api
Feb 2021 - Feb 2021
Public contributions for win32 API documentation
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
apiwin32win32-apiapi-documentation
microsoft/WSL
Apr 2016 - Oct 2021
Issues found on WSL
Contributions:406 comments, 75 issues in 5 years 7 months
wslwindows
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.