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Seattle, WA, US

Redmond, Washington, United States

Forged the inception of Visual Studio Copilot. I bridge products, teams and ideas in the AI developer productivity space. I'm responsible for iterating on novel approaches, weaving new and old feature and product areas together, and designing the next categories of AI implementations for developers. I actively shape the future product vision for Visual.

Redmond, Washington, United States

I designed and launched an inclusive code review initiative that incorporates metrics, tooling, and training branches to enhance the review process. I actively recruit and coach trainers; to date, 18 trainers have successfully trained over 250 participants. The program has achieved triple-digit performance gains across key metrics, such as time to PR close.

Redmond, Washington, United States

Led enhancements to the Code Index Service (an IDE anywhere technology), focusing on the integration of language services with AI through LSIF, ultimately boosting RAG success rates for GitHub Copilot. Also drove changes that streamlined onboarding process that contributed to a 300% increase in 2-day active users and significantly optimized the service's.

Redmond, Washington, United States

Founded and led the Razor Tooling team after successfully lobbying for organizational support and funding. My team developed high-performance, multi-faceted tooling based on the Language Server Protocol (LSP), which significantly enhanced developer experiences and adoption rates for Blazor, MVC, and Razor Pages. This initiative fundamentally improved the.

Simultaneously while building the Razor Tooling team I developed and launched the.NET Install Tool extension for VSCode, which has now achieved over 14 million downloads and serves as a cornerstone for C# development in the IDE. I successfully collaborated with Microsoft to secure organizational support and funding, enabling seamless integration of the.

Redmond, Washington, United States

On the Razor Compiler team, I led a comprehensive redesign of the compiler for cross-platform compatibility for ASP.NET Core. I also spearheaded a full re-architecture of the compiler's code generation and parser extensibility. These enhancements not only expanded tooling possibilities but were also instrumental in enabling Blazor development.

Redmond, Washington, United States

As a founding member of ASP.NET Core, I helped establish its self-contained hosting model and led the development of ASP.NET Core Razor's TagHelper ecosystem which enabled third-party extensibility and monetization.

Redmond, Washington, United States

Enhanced SignalR, Microsoft's real-time messaging framework, by developing scale-out capable features and resolving cross-cutting bugs across.NET, JavaScript, and C++ platforms. Spearheaded the design of ShootR, an online multiplayer web game, to showcase these technologies at high-profile tech conferences such as Microsoft Build.

Greater Philadelphia Area

Create new and modify existing website applications working independently and as part of a team. Collaborate with business system analysts to articulate their vision beyond basic business requirements of initial proposal to make the application effective, on-time and within budget. Rewrote and automated the application deployment process.

Work with clients to assess needs, budget, timeline and refine final product. Use technologies learned at Drexel, Digitas and Razorfish to create, implement and deliver bleeding-edge websites. Websites: Mango-Tango.net, Bartapz, CiteIn, Student-Subway.

Greater Philadelphia Area

Web developer responsible for delivering fully functional e-commerce healthcare websites for clients from mockups provided by agency. Worked in small team-based environment using latest technologies to deliver websites for prestigious brands such as Pristiq.com, Torisel.com and Mylan.com. One of two developers for the new company website.

Greater Philadelphia Area

Technical developer for SEO team. Responsible for customizing SEO tools and reports for e-commerce healthcare websites of high-profile Digitas clients. Collaborated with SEO unit analysts to automate retrieval of data for customized reports to fit specific business needs.

Trevose, PA

Responsible for user testing of Ojo videophone product. Created customized utilities for testing hardware performance. Presented results to CEO and VP of Marketing.