Alex Eyler
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Eyler is a Principal Software Engineer based in Seattle with a decade of experience building developer tools and cloud-driven customer service platforms at Microsoft. He has led messaging architecture for OmniChannel in Dynamics, contributed to Developer Productivity for Microsoft Dev Box, and now works on the GitHub Copilot API—bridging large-scale developer experiences with practical engineering. Alex’s background in Visual Studio extensibility and hands-on fixes to the widely used Microsoft VSSDK samples highlights a pragmatic attention to build reliability and backward compatibility. He blends infrastructure and UX concerns across foundation services and extensibility ecosystems, often surfacing subtle build and tooling issues before they impact users. With an MS in Computer Science from the University of Washington and early experience in avionics simulation and web backends, he brings a rare mix of systems rigor and developer empathy.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of WashingtonBachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Rochester Institute of Technology
English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (13)
extensibility10
nuget10
build-tools10
visual-studio-extension10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
netframework10
wpf9
version-control8
inversion-of-control6
generics6
lazy-initialization6
repository-pattern6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/VSSDK-Extensibility-Samples
Dec 2015 - Feb 2018
Samples for building your own Visual Studio extensions
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:30 commits, 27 PRs, 21 pushes in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on fixing build issues and warnings within the Visual Studio SDK extensibility samples. Their work involved updating NuGet package references, correcting file paths, and addressing build errors across multiple project files, including those related to UI design and source control integration. Furthermore, the user made code changes that were focused on fixing specific warning errors.
extensionsvisualstudiovisual-studio-extensionvisual-studio
AlexEyler/VSSDK-Extensibility-Samples
Dec 2015 - Feb 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 2 months
extensionsbuild-your-ownvisual-studio-extensionvisual-studio
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