TobiasĀ Brick
Senior SDE at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
š¤©
Rockstarš
Top SchoolTobias Brick is a Senior SDE based in Redmond with over two decades of hands-on experience building high-volume, cloud-backed services and native clients across C#, C++, Win32, Android and Java. At Microsoft he architects and operates Xbox Live backend pipelinesāmigrating services to Azure, converting single-tenant systems to triple-active architectures, and shipping tournament and leaderboard features with low operational overhead. He pairs security-minded backend work (patching CVEs in critical projects like microsoft/azurelinux) with pragmatic client and tooling experience from earlier roles at HTC and in Outlook/Zune infrastructure. Tobias excels at squeezing operational cost savings from architecture changes and shipping reliable releases across mobile, web and desktop platforms. A subtle strength is his ability to bridge deep systems programming and developer-facing tooling, enabling both robust production services and smoother developer workflows.
3 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer and Information Sciences, General, BS, Computer and Information Sciences, General at University of Oregon
Github Skills (10)
vulnerabilities10
rust10
patch10
vulnerability10
security10
wget9
clamav9
c178
openssl8
c118
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/azurelinux
Mar 2023 - Apr 2025
Linux OS for Azure 1P services and edge appliances
Role in this project:
Security Engineer & Backend Developer
Security Engineer & Backend DeveloperContributions:173 reviews, 222 PRs, 369 pushes in 2 years
Contributions summary:Tobias primarily focused on addressing security vulnerabilities within the `microsoft/azurelinux` repository, specifically related to CVEs. Their work involved patching vulnerabilities in dependencies like `cranelift`, `request` (within the `reaper` module), and `clamav` to ensure the system's security posture. They also implemented a fix related to a potential infinite loop issue in `wget` and performed other improvements to improve security in the OS.
cdrappliancesvmslinux-oslinux
tobiasb-ms/CBL-Mariner
May 2023 - Aug 2023
Linux OS for Azure 1P services and edge appliances
Contributions:46 pushes, 24 branches, 1 tag in 3 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWeāve 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.