Adele Reed
Software Engineer II at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolAdele Reed is a software engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building backend systems at Microsoft, specializing in concurrent, multi-threaded code across Go, C++, C#, Java/Kotlin, Elixir, Python, and Rust. She led significant refactors and feature work on AzCopy, improving enumeration design, list command capabilities, and cross-platform permission persistence for Azure Storage—work that directly improved developer productivity and customer automation. Self-taught and deeply curious, she pairs hobbyist-driven experimentation with production-grade engineering, maintaining both Microsoft and personal GitHub profiles that showcase practical tooling and integrations. Based in Redmond, she also built internal deployment plugins and expanded authentication support for automated scenarios, demonstrating a knack for bridging developer experience and operational needs.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate, Database Analytics, Certificate, Database Analytics at Year Up
Github Skills (13)
command-line-interface10
go10
azure-storage10
cli10
command-line10
testing9
fileio9
file-operations9
filesystem9
formatting8
data-formats8
data-format8
github4
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-storage-azcopy
Apr 2019 - Apr 2019
The new Azure Storage data transfer utility - AzCopy v10
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 9 commits, 2 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Adele focused on improving the Azure Storage data transfer utility AzCopy v10. Their contributions primarily involved enhancing the list command functionality. The user added features such as listing file sizes and introducing flags for machine-readable output, running tallies, and mega-unit display. They also refactored code by changing data types and renaming functions.
v10blob-storagedata-storageazure-blob-storageopenstack-swift
Riven-Spell/qmk_firmware
Nov 2019 - Apr 2023
Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes in 3 years 4 months
rp2040firmwareavratmelusb
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