Peter Smith
Senior Developer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Smith is a seasoned Windows systems developer with over three decades of low-level networking and protocol experience and eight years in focused roles at Microsoft. He designed key Windows Runtime networking APIs—sockets and HttpClient—and led work improving VPN, email, and core System.Net diagnostics for UWP and Windows. His background spans C#, Win32, C/C++, Python scripting, and data analysis, and he holds patents in 3D data compression from his startup-era work. At Microsoft he has blended developer-facing API design with high-performance networking plumbing, and today contributes to Windows Wi‑Fi and UWP VPN management. Colleagues know him as a pragmatic engineer who moves between tooling, protocol design, and high-throughput socket optimization. Based in Redmond, he combines product-facing API craftsmanship with deep systems-level expertise.
8 years of coding experience
36 years of employment as a software developer
Chatham UniversityBS EE+Math Electrical Engineering Computer Science, BS EE+Math Electrical Engineering Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
c#
Github Skills (61)
windows10
windows-app10
homebridge9
homekit9
bluetooth9
winrt8
siri8
uwp8
csharp7
dotnet-core7
dotnet7
cpp6
database6
open-source6
windows-phone6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
pedasmith/windows-uwp
Apr 2020 - Sep 2025
Conceptual and overview content for developing Microsoft Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps
Contributions:2 pushes in 5 years 6 months
xamldotnetuwpdevelopingwindows
pedasmith/VoraciousEBookReader
Mar 2021 - Feb 2026
Contributions:19 pushes, 5 comments, 8 issues in 4 years 11 months
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