Tim Kurtzman
Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Kurtzman is a seasoned software engineering manager at Microsoft with over 25 years at the company and deep expertise in OS and platform engineering. He has led teams across flagship projects including the Windows Phone/UWP platform, Windows 10X, Windows Subsystem for Android, and Xbox/Game Pass platform features, bridging device, console, and cloud experiences. Hands-on early in his career as a C++ and C# engineer, he worked on the CLR runtime, media playback prototypes, and application lifecycle APIs, giving him a rare combination of low-level runtime knowledge and product-facing API design. Based in Redmond, he excels at guiding cross-disciplinary teams to ship platform capabilities that developers and consumers rely on. An understated strength is his long-tenured institutional knowledge of Microsoft’s platform evolution, which helps him anticipate integration and compatibility trade-offs before they surface.
4 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Minnesota
Github Skills (36)
dashboard10
windows10
developer-tools10
android-open-source9
youtube9
kotlin9
uwp-apps9
inno-setup9
microsoft-store9
wpf8
windows-service8
android8
uwp8
translation8
csharp8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
timkur/windows-uwp
Nov 2021 - Feb 2023
Conceptual and overview content for developing Microsoft Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 year 3 months
xamldotnetuwpdevelopingwindows
microsoft/devhome
Apr 2024 - Sep 2024
The new Dev Home experience for Windows!
Contributions:288 reviews, 88 PRs, 187 pushes in 5 months
dashboarddeveloper-toolsrepository-managementsetupwindows
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