Betsegaw Tadele
United States, Ethiopia
Summary
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RockstarBetsegaw Tadele is a Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft in Seattle with 11 years of experience building developer-facing tools, cloud services, and secure production workloads. He specializes in enabling engineering productivity—authoring centralized pipeline tooling that cut weeks of work to minutes, driving Git adoption across Windows, and designing a cloud monitoring/hosting platform that now runs 20+ critical internal services. His work spans client-side and cloud technologies, from telemetry and sessionization of massive device data to driving security and compliance for hundreds of Windows services. An active open-source creator, he built WindowWalker which was integrated into Microsoft PowerToys and continues to refactor launcher and UX integrations. A Morehouse valedictorian (3.99 GPA), he blends fast prototyping with multi-year, cross-organization leadership to solve practical developer problems.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (11)
csharp10
interop10
system-integration10
dotnet-core10
launcher9
human-interface9
graphical-user-interface9
wpf9
user-interface9
c-language8
c-programming-language8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/PowerToys
Jan 2020 - May 2020
Windows system utilities to maximize productivity
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 14 PRs, 63 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Betsegaw focused on implementing and integrating the "Window Walker" functionality within the PowerToys project, spanning both the application and its integration with the overall system. Their work involved importing the Window Walker codebase, integrating it into the module list, and enhancing its functionality. They addressed user experience concerns by enabling tabbing for scrolling and setting focus on the search box, and they also worked on improvements related to handling UWP process names. This developer also migrated the Window Walker functionality to a new launcher, refactoring much of the existing code.
fancyzoneswindowspowerrenameproductivitymaximize
betsegaw/windowwalker
Feb 2014 - Apr 2020
Keyboard Alternative to Alt-Tab on Windows
Contributions:1 release, 328 commits, 6 PRs in 6 years 2 months
windowsaltwindow-managementkeyboarddesktop
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