William Duff
Principal Software Engineering Lead, Microsoft Mesh
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Duff is a Principal Software Engineering Lead at Microsoft with 15 years of experience building mixed reality and Windows platform software from intern to principal. He currently leads engineering for Microsoft Mesh, blending systems-level architecture with consumer and enterprise mixed-reality experiences. William has deep full‑stack experience—evidenced by contributions to the Open Live Writer project where he implemented OAuth-backed Google Blogger integration, file uploads, and core blog client features. He is skilled at shipping complex integrations that bridge cloud services, client apps, and UX, and has a track record of evolving teams and products across several long-tenured roles at Microsoft. Based in Seattle and a U of Illinois CS graduate, he pairs pragmatic engineering with product-focused leadership and a knack for improving legacy flows to work in modern ecosystems.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (9)
blogpost10
microblogging10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
netframework10
ui-design9
front-end-development9
winforms9
uid9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
OpenLiveWriter/OpenLiveWriter
Dec 2015 - Sep 2016
An open source fork of Windows Live Writer
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 68 commits, 29 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:William's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the Google Blogger integration within the Open Live Writer application. They implemented a new Google Blogger configuration wizard panel, incorporating OAuth authentication and file upload capabilities. The user also implemented core features like listing and retrieving posts and pages, and improved the existing category and page handling functionality. These updates involved significant changes to the application's blog client, configuration, and post-editing components.
dotnetstatic-site-cmsstatic-sitewindowsblogging
willduff/OpenLiveWriter-1
Dec 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 26 pushes, 13 branches in 9 months
windows-livewindowswriter
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