Sam Adams

About Sam Adams

I work at Microsoft in Azure\'s Core OS group responsible for all lower-level OS type things. Over the years, I have worked on PnP extension for protocol devices (i.e. Bluetooth, WiFiDirect, IPP, UPnP, etc.), device security and capability models for apps, user mode software + driver packaging, virtualized device forwarding in Hyper-V, device posture virtualization (ACPI physical device description + real-time sensor and HID data), user specific PnP device nodes for cloud printing in Azure, Bluetooth and WiFi protocol standards + platform support (eg. set pairing, WFD2, etc.).Before Microsoft, I worked for the Air Forcer Research Lab (AFRL) in High Performance Computing (HPC) writing electromagnetic (EM) modeling code that runs on large parallel clusters.Specialties: Windows systems programming, HPC

Experience

1. Senior Software Engineer

   Microsoft

   Jun 2008 — Present

   I do device related systems programming for the Windows operating system.

Education

• The University of Texas at San Antonio

  BS, Computer Science

  2000 — 2003

• The University of Texas at San Antonio

  MS, Computer Science

  2003 — 2006

Skills

• Rpc
• Windows Systems Internals
• Opengl
• Software Development
• Hpc
• Python
• Networks
• Xml
• Rest
• Fortran
• Gpgpu
• High Performance Computing
• Automotive
• Windbg
• Sql
• Linux
• Cg
• Amp
• Windows
• Matlab
• Arm
• Distributed Systems
• Perl
• Cuda
• C#
• Multithreading
• Algorithms
• Device Drivers
• C
• Programming
• Win32 Api
• Software Engineering
• Software Design
• C++
• Object Oriented Design
• C/C++
• Computer Science