Zane Purvis
Senior Software Engineer, Compute Hardware Platform Innovation (CHPI)
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolZane Purvis is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building embedded systems and cross-platform cloud tooling, currently driving low-level performance telemetry and early Rust adoption for Azure's Compute Hardware Platform Innovation team. He blends deep firmware expertise—from bootloaders and battery-powered IoT devices to network stacks—with strong API and tooling design skills in C#, F#, C, and scripting languages. At Microsoft he enabled ARM64 transitions and large-scale stress testing for VM fleets; earlier, as an embedded team lead, he introduced TDD, DSL-based code generation, and editor extensions that materially reduced defects and developer friction. Zane is comfortable navigating hardware, OS, and cloud-stack boundaries and is known for turning complex, multi-team requirements into practical, well-tested solutions. Based in Raleigh, NC, he brings a pragmatic curiosity for new languages and paradigms, evidenced by his organizational-first adoption of Rust for telemetry agents.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. M.S. Computer Engineering, B.S. M.S. Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University
Github Skills (158)
rake10
fsharp10
dotnet10
editor10
electron10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
vscode10
csharp10
cmock10
unit-testing10
bold10
microsoft10
dotnet-core10
mindmap10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
zanedp/windows-powershell-docs
Dec 2021 - Dec 2022
This repo is used to contribute to Windows 10, Windows Server 2016, and MDOP PowerShell module documentation.
Contributions:7 pushes in 11 months
windows-server-2016windows-serverwindowspowershellpowershell-module
zanedp/dotnet-docs
Nov 2018 - Feb 2020
This repository contains .NET Documentation.
Contributions:6 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 3 months
dotnetcsharpdotnet-coredotnet-cli
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