Michael Milirud joined Microsoft Windows group as a Software Design Engineer in 2002 after graduating with a B.A.Sc. in computer engineering from University of Toronto. He is passionate about engineering efficient and robust critical path systems. To that end, he has spent five years on the Windows Graphics team, working with engineers building next-generation graphics stacks for Windows (Vista and 7). He was author of the Windows Vista monitor driver stack and its Display Mode Management subsystem and holds four patents as primary owner and one patent as secondary owner in that space.
Currently, Michael is a program manager on the Windows Performance team where he was responsible for the first version of the Windows Performance Toolkit. He can be found presenting at conferences, Build, WinHEC, TechED, and TechReady, as well as working on defining the future direction for Windows performance analysis tools. In this role, he also works closely with partners, both designing and delivering deep-dive courses on performance analysis.
Alex Kirshenbaum joined Microsoft’s Windows Performance Team as a software design engineer in 2004, after graduating with a masters in computer science from Cornell University. Since then, he has worked on a number of Windows performance-enhancing features, including external flash caching (ReadyBoost) and speculative boot prefetching. He also served as a performance analyst for various software components across the company, with focus on on/off power transitions. In recent years, Alex has become involved with performance issue investigation and analysis for Microsoft partners, and he is currently working as a senior engineer on the Windows Partner Engagement team. Alex holds six patents in the space of Windows performance.
Alex Bendetov joined Windows Server Performance team at Microsoft as a software design engineer in 2001 and has been working on performance related technologies ever since. His projects include analyzing and tuning performance of various Windows components and subsystems, such as NamedPipes, Registry, FileServer, and ActiveDirectory. Currently, Alex leads a team responsible for core event tracing infrastructure in Windows (ETW) and supporting libraries and tools (MessageCompiler, TDH, tracerpt).