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

After discovering operating systems in college, he 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.

Wang 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 through actual coding and down to the bit-level debugging and performance tuning.

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

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

He enjoys spending time with his wife Kathryn, playing pretty much any sport with his son Jason, and tackling puzzles with his daughter Alyssa.