Tim Merrifield
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Merrifield is a Principal Software Engineer with 16 years of systems and virtualization experience, currently focused on core hypervisor design and confidential computing at Microsoft after a long tenure at VMware. He specializes in Virtual Machine Monitor development, performance optimization, and Intel TDX-based confidential VM features, blending deep academic grounding (PhD work at UIC) with production-grade engineering. Tim has a track record of progressing from research and internships into senior engineering and staff roles, driving low-level platform improvements that materially boost VM performance and security. Based in Austin, he brings a pragmatic researcher’s mindset to large-scale cloud and virtualization problems, often tackling the subtle cross-section of hardware capabilities and software architecture.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Phd, Computer Science, Phd, Computer Science at University of Illinois ChicagoBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Ohio University
Github Skills (6)
binaries7
cli7
administration7
command-line-tool7
homebrew6
macos6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
tmerrifi/consequence
Apr 2015 - Jan 2019
Contributions:125 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 10 months
tmerrifi/conversion
Mar 2013 - Dec 2017
Contributions:460 commits, 97 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
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