Tim Misiak
Software Sorceror at Datadog
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Misiak is a software engineering leader with nine years of post-academic experience and a long tenure at Microsoft culminating as Principal Software Engineering Lead, now building at Datadog after co-founding and serving as CTO of a startup. He blends low-level debugging expertise—contributing WinDbg extensions and DbgX demos in C++ and C#—with full-stack product leadership across cloud and developer tooling. Known for pragmatic refactors and dependency modernization, he moves comfortably between systems-level code and higher-level application design. Based in the Greater Seattle Area, he prefers Twitter for contact and brings an engineer-founder perspective that accelerates shipping reliable, debuggable systems.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Pennsylvania State University
Github Skills (8)
debugging10
c-language10
csharp10
cprogramming-language10
dotnet-core10
dotnet8
net8
asp-net8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/WinDbg-Samples
Dec 2018 - Oct 2022
Sample extensions, scripts, and API uses for WinDbg.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:41 reviews, 38 commits, 25 PRs in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Tim contributed to the development of WinDbg extensions using C++, incorporating the Data Model C++17 Client Library. They also created a simple DbgX demo application and a sample for reading a dump stack using the data model, written in C#. Furthermore, the user refactored code by removing unused headers and updating dependencies, including the latest dbgeng package, symsrv and srcsrv. This indicates a focus on both low-level debugging and higher-level application development within the context of the WinDbg environment.
windbg
microsoft/WinDbg-Libraries
Mar 2019 - Oct 2022
Libraries for extending WinDbg and its underlying components.
Contributions:1 review, 10 commits, 5 PRs in 3 years 7 months
windbg
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