Landy Wang is a Distinguished Engineer in the core Windows operating system group at Microsoft.

After discovering the intricacy of operating systems in college, he realized he had found his calling and spent 12 years designing XENIX and UNIX operating systems for a number of smaller companies. Realizing that he wanted his efforts to expand beyond the UNIX community and improve the (much larger) world of those using Windows, Microsoft became the natural next step.

He has designed, implemented and debugged the entire virtual memory subsystem of Microsoft's Windows NT-based operating systems since 1997. He is passionate about improving both quality and performance throughout the system, participating from the architectural review stages all the way down to the bit-level debugging and performance tuning.

He gives many presentations both internally and externally and enjoys discussing various technical aspects of the system. Collaborating with as well as mentoring energetic and enthusiastic colleagues throughout the company was one of the primary facets that attracted him to Microsoft in the first place.

While he has received numerous patents at Microsoft, he is most proud of the ones that have been jointly credited as they exemplify the underlying team effort.

He is happily married to Kathryn and they enjoy raising their 6 year old son Jason - teaching him to chase his rainbows with joy and tenacity!