William Xie
Senior Software Engineer at Anduril Industries
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Xie is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building production-ready diagnostic tools and full-stack applications, currently focused on systems and developer tooling at Anduril after a long tenure at Microsoft. He shipped features across Visual Studio Production Diagnostics and Azure-hosted diagnostic appliances—owning telemetry, UX, cross-platform CLIs, and memory/dump analysis—and has experience integrating advanced services like GitHub Copilot APIs. William combines deep systems knowledge (CLR instrumentation, DAC APIs, Service Fabric) with practical deployment experience for Azure App Services, VMs, and AKS, and has led customer studies and security/privacy threat modeling. His background in electrical engineering with minors in math, CS, and music complements a teaching history mentoring interns and undergraduates, reflecting both technical depth and an educator’s patience. Notably, he open-sourced CLR Instrumentation Engine and translated profiler algorithms into diagnostic tooling, bridging profiler research and real-world diagnostics.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Engineering Electrical Engineering with focus in Computer Software, Bachelor of Science in Engineering Electrical Engineering with focus in Computer Software at University of Iowa
English, French, Chinese
Github Skills (102)
visual-studio-mac10
windows10
low-level10
instrumentation10
visual-studio10
profiling10
cil10
dotnet10
visual-studio-extension10
visual-studio-for-mac10
debugging10
scripting10
clr10
cpu10
coreclr10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/CLRInstrumentationEngine
Oct 2018 - Nov 2022
The CLR Instrumentation Engine is a cooperation profiler that allows running multiple profiling extensions in the same process.
Contributions:250 reviews, 521 commits, 368 PRs in 4 years 2 months
instrumentationprofilingclrextensionscooperation
WilliamXieMSFT/visualstudio-docs
Sep 2017 - May 2022
Note: this repo moved to the MicrosoftDocs organization on June 23, 2017. Traffic to the previous URLs will be redirected here.
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 4 years 8 months
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