About

Maxime van Noppen is a Principal Software Engineer Lead at Microsoft, with over 14 years of relevant experience in the industry. He is passionate about AR/VR and how cloud technologies can help design experiences that achieve the scale and fidelity that customers expect. Maxime comes from a video-game background and is still a C++ developer at heart, although Rust has recently caught his eye. He loves diving deep into the most intricate technical details but also zooming out to design reliable systems at scale. Currently, Maxime leads a team working with HoloLens 2 and Azure to change the world. His team is working on the convergence of AR, VR, and cloud services, with a focus on remote rendering. Maxime is also involved in the development of Azure services that enable customers to build immersive, interactive experiences. In the past, Maxime has worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft, where he was responsible for developing and maintaining software for various projects. He has also worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Havok, where he worked on the common C++ infrastructure underpinning Havok's middleware solutions for video-games. His work there included memory allocators, an automatically generated C++ reflection system based on clang, and a transactional in-memory object tracking system used to implement change notifications, undo/redo, and more. Maxime holds an Engineer's degree in Computer Software from epita: ingénierie informatique, where he studied from 2004 to 2009. His tech stack includes software engineering, Azure, and infra. Maxime's passion for AR/VR and cloud technologies, combined with his expertise in software engineering, make him an invaluable asset to any team.