Tyler Leonhardt
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolTyler Leonhardt is a senior software engineer on the Visual Studio Code team at Microsoft with 11 years of experience building developer tools, runtime integrations, and automation. He specializes in PowerShell and .NET developer experiences—having prototyped a PowerShell subkernel for .NET Interactive and added PowerShell workers, tests, and tooling support across Azure Functions and core tools. His hybrid backend/DevOps focus includes cross-platform CI/CD fixes, Homebrew cask maintenance, and authentication/secret storage improvements inside VS Code. Based in Seattle, he pairs low-level runtime work (for example, adding named-pipe support to pwsh) with editor and extension enhancements to streamline real-world developer workflows.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Degree, Computer Science at University of Central Florida
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (82)
package-management10
testing10
authentication10
azure-functions10
dotnet-interactive10
ci-cd10
secretsmanager10
file-management10
powershell-710
secret-manager10
dotnet10
homebrew-cask10
localization10
api10
powershell10
Programming languages (30)
Github contributions (5)
PowerShell/vscode-powershell
Nov 2017 - Apr 2022
Provides PowerShell language and debugging support for Visual Studio Code
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 releases, 55 reviews, 215 commits in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Tyler primarily contributed to the extension's core functionality, focusing on implementing and refining features related to file handling and editor commands. They added new functionality like the .Save() method to the FileContext API and implemented the ability to check if a file is dirty before saving. The user also updated the code to normalize file paths on Windows and macOS. The user also worked on integrating new methods and improving the user interface.
visual-studio-codepowershellvscodevscode-extensiondebugging
PowerShell/PowerShellEditorServices
Nov 2017 - Dec 2020
A common platform for PowerShell development support in any editor or application!
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 releases, 17 reviews, 234 commits in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Tyler primarily contributed to the backend logic and functionality of the PowerShell Editor Services. They addressed several bug fixes and implemented new features, such as handling ArgumentOutOfRange exceptions, converting "" to string.Empty. They also made significant changes to file manipulation, remote file management, including setting up functions for file opening, closing, saving and other file manipulation options. Additionally, they implemented functions and APIs for managing and interacting with files within the editor.
windowspowershellintellisensedebuggerlanguage-server
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