Alex Oswald
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Bellevue, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Oswald is a Senior Software Engineer and electrical engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building full-stack SaaS and distributed hardware validation systems, currently contributing to Microsoft's Windows Silicon & Systems Integration (HIVE) team. He founded and ran Oswald Technologies for a decade, delivering TireDispatcher—a scalable .NET/Azure SaaS used by major tire companies—which demonstrates his ability to turn domain expertise into production-grade cloud software. Alex has deep experience automating hardware test systems and writing device interface libraries for over seven years, and is an expert in architecting Azure Pipelines for complex CI/CD workflows. He also develops RESTful .NET services and maintains an open-source .NET Generic Host extension for Windows Forms that’s gaining traction, reflecting a commitment to practical developer tooling. Based in Bellevue, WA, he blends entrepreneurial grit with systems-level engineering and a continuing interest in sharing technical learnings via his engineering blog.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Computer Science, Master of Science, Computer Science at University of WashingtonBachelor of Science, Electronics Engineering Technology (EET), Bachelor of Science, Electronics Engineering Technology (EET) at DeVry University
Github Skills (61)
dotnet10
winforms10
windows-forms10
csharp10
cloud-computing9
windows-desktop9
linux9
windows9
docker9
ui-framework9
windows-driver9
mobile9
api9
home-assistant9
react8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
alex-oswald/WindowsFormsLifetime
Feb 2020 - Nov 2022
Windows Forms hosting extensions for the .NET Generic Host
Contributions:11 releases, 3 reviews, 54 commits in 2 years 10 months
dotnetwindows-formscsharpwinforms
alex-oswald/CloudflareDDNS
Feb 2023 - Jul 2025
Cloudflare Dynamic DNS service via Docker container
Contributions:2 releases, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 2 years 5 months
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