Dev Desai
Senior Hardware Design Engineer at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDev Desai is an FPGA and hardware engineer with six years of experience building high-performance networking and accelerator solutions for Microsoft Azure. He progressed from FPGA-focused development to a Hardware Engineer 2 role on Azure Networking, contributing to smart NIC and accelerated networking efforts that bridge ASIC/FPGA design and cloud-scale systems. His background spans eFPGA architecture, FPGA toolchain optimization, and ASIC design from internships and early roles, giving him a practical fluency in place-and-route, synthesis, and system integration. Based in Seattle with an MS in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, he combines deep hands-on implementation experience with production-focused engineering at hyperscale—often surfacing toolchain fixes and architecture trade-offs that improve deployability.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master of Science (MS) Electrical and Electronics Engineering at San José State UniversityBachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Electronics Engineering at Gujarat Technological University (GTU)
Github Skills (12)
windows-subsystem-for-linux10
windows-defender10
wsl29
linux-kernel9
linux-security-module9
windows9
authentication8
security7
api-documentation7
api7
visual-studio-code-extension3
sarif3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
MicrosoftDocs/MS-AppControl-AppManifests
Dec 2023 - Feb 2026
Contributions:4 reviews, 3 PRs, 4 pushes in 2 years 2 months
microsoft/ipe
Apr 2020 - Aug 2020
IPE is a Linux Security Module (LSM), which allows for a configurable policy to enforce integrity requirements on the whole system. IPE builds on concepts and implementations like loadpin, as well as leveraging existing modules like dm-verity to simplify enforcing integrity requirements on systems that require security constraints and\or compliance reasons. IPE is intended to complement IMA and they can work in conjunction with each other. IPE provides a policy that allows owners of the system to easily specify integrity requirements and uses dm-verity signatures to simplify the authentication of allowed objects like authorized code and data.
Contributions:15 commits in 4 months
authenticationlinux-security-modulesecurity
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