Tapan Ansel

Principal Engineer at Microsoft

Greater Seattle Area United States
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Tapan Ansel is a Principal Engineer based in the Greater Seattle Area who designs core OS scheduling and power-management architectures for Windows across AMD64 and ARM64. He specializes in heterogeneous scheduling policies that balance performance and energy efficiency, and is a subject-matter expert on battery systems—having shipped features for battery aging management and adaptive charging. Tapan also shapes Modern Standby policies to deliver instant-on behavior without compromising battery life. His background includes deep platform power optimization at Qualcomm and ST-Ericsson, where he modeled system power, tuned DVFS/DCVS, and solved thermal and complex workload scenarios like Miracast and 4K multimedia. He combines kernel-level design with practical tooling and analytics for large-scale battery triage, reflecting a rare mix of low-level systems expertise and measurable product impact. Despite a concise public footprint on GitHub, his work is widely deployed in shipping Windows devices and chipsets.
code3 years of coding experience
job9 years of employment as a software developer
bookBE, Electronics & communication, BE, Electronics & communication at Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology
languagesEnglish, Hindi
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Github Skills (12)

windows-driver10
driver10
windows8
desktop8
visual-studio8
firmware7
wdk7
api-documentation7
api7
microsoft6
python6
uefi5

Programming languages (1)

C

Github contributions (5)

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tapanansel/sdk-api

Aug 2024 - Aug 2024

Public contributions for win32 API documentation
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
MicrosoftDocs/win32

Jun 2022 - Jul 2022

Public mirror for win32-pr
Contributions:4 commits in 29 days
win32
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