Alec Cattarin
Senior Image Quality Engineer & Lab Manager at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlec Cattarin is a Senior Image Quality Engineer and Lab Manager with over a decade of hands-on experience tuning and evaluating camera systems for consumer devices, currently leading Microsoft’s Surface camera development lab in Redmond. He manages the lab’s hardware, software, test stations, vendors, and fiscal operations while driving objective and subjective IQ research that has informed more than 15 device launches. Alec combines ISP tuning, RAW-to-ISP data analysis, and structured subjective testing to translate technical imaging metrics into better user experiences. He also contributes to open-source cloud and Azure tooling—automating deployments and improving Azure Service Bus and KEDA integrations—bringing practical DevOps and backend experience to imaging workflows. Uniquely, his background spans academic photometric research and space‑grade optical internships, reflecting a foundation in physics that underpins his pragmatic approach to camera system optimization.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Physics, Bachelor of Science, Physics at Seattle University
Github Skills (33)
kubernetes10
docker10
web-proxy10
servicebus10
bash10
proxy10
cloud-infrastructure10
microsoft-azure10
containerization10
dockers10
cicd10
java10
proxy-pac10
azure-cli10
http-proxy10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/OpenHack
Jul 2021 - Sep 2021
This repository contains Microsoft OpenHack's open source code and documentation specific to (BYOS) Bring Your Own Azure Subscription. Aka.ms/OpenHackBYOS
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:28 commits, 4 PRs, 4 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Alec's contributions primarily focused on automating the deployment and configuration of Azure resources within the `microsoft/openhack` repository. They implemented and modified deployment scripts (`deploy.sh`) to build and deploy container images to Azure Container Registry (ACR), create Azure SQL databases, and configure other related services. The user also added features for preview feature registration, user creation, and data loading, demonstrating an understanding of the infrastructure setup required for the project. The changes included integrating Azure Container Registry (ACR), and Azure SQL DB, and the use of the Azure CLI for automation.
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Azure/azure-service-bus
Oct 2018 - Mar 2019
☁️ Azure Service Bus service issue tracking and samples
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 3 PRs, 2 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Alec contributed to the "azure-service-bus" repository by implementing features related to proxy configuration for the Java samples. They added code to set up an HTTP proxy using `ProxySelector`, including the ability to configure proxy settings through command-line arguments or environment variables. The changes involved modifying the `QueuesWithProxy` sample code to support proxy configuration and transport type modifications. These modifications enable users to run the samples with an HTTP proxy, enhancing connectivity flexibility.
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