Alejandro Villarreal
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Houston, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolAlejandro Villarreal is a senior software engineer and cloud-savvy architect with over 15 years in IT and nine years of focused software experience, currently driving engineering at Microsoft from Houston. He blends full-stack development, infrastructure design, and product-oriented leadership—having led architecture and DevOps for SaaS platforms using .NET Core, Python, Node.js, TypeScript, SQL Server, MongoDB, Docker/Kubernetes and Azure. Alejandro has a strong track record of turning consulting practices into product-focused teams, building CI/CD pipelines, and mentoring cross-functional teams while implementing robust security and compliance controls. He contributes to notable open-source work on Microsoft’s Fluid Framework, improving test quality and optimizing core collaborative data structures for real-time web apps. With an engineering degree from Tecnológico de Monterrey and stints at EPFL and UT Dallas, he pairs academic breadth with pragmatic delivery in distributed, high-availability systems.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at Tecnológico de MonterreyThe University of Texas at DallasEPFL
Spanish, English, French, German
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Github Skills (13)
fluid-framework10
typescript10
typescripts10
javascript10
typescript-types10
testing10
data-structure9
performance-optimization9
telemetry9
data-structures9
collaboration8
crdt8
spacy6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/FluidFramework
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
Library for building distributed, real-time collaborative web applications
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:4112 reviews, 126 commits, 1073 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Alejandro primarily focused on improving the test suite and code quality within the Fluid Framework project. Their contributions involved refactoring code, adding test cases, and correcting typos and grammar errors. They also implemented features such as generating shortcode JSON and adding telemetry for DDS-level measurements. Furthermore, the user worked on optimizing the performance of core data structures like SharedMap and SharedDirectory by using more efficient code patterns.
datastructurerealtimereal-timeweb-applicationsfluid-framework
alexvy86/docker-py
Nov 2017 - Apr 2024
Contributions:1 push, 2 branches in 6 years 6 months
python-libraryapipythondocker-engine-apidocker-engine
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