Alex Vigdor
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Vigdor is a Principal Software Engineer based in Seattle with a 25+ year track record of architecting and modernizing high-throughput, cloud-native systems across media, healthcare, and platform teams. He currently helps integrate advanced natural language capabilities and strengthen backend reliability for Microsoft Copilot Studio, after leading large rewrites and cloud migrations at Nuance and Disney where he scaled messaging, search, and content systems to billions of notifications and real-time analytics. Comfortable from JVM microservices and GRPC to AWS/Azure platform services, Terraform, and observability with OpenTelemetry, he pairs hands-on implementation with developer training and cross-functional architectural leadership. Alex has a history of publishing reusable core libraries and open-source frameworks, and he brings a pragmatic focus on disaster recovery, performance tuning, and developer workflows. Less obvious: his background in game and interactive media design informs a product-aware engineering approach that balances user-facing experience with backend resilience.
8 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Game and Interactive Media Design, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Game and Interactive Media Design at Indiana University Bloomington
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Github Skills (29)
java-json10
serialization9
performance-testing9
deserialization9
maven9
scripting-language8
java8
groovy7
sax6
cookie6
parsing6
lucene6
atom-feed6
rss6
fuzzy-search6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
disney/groovity
Apr 2018 - Nov 2020
Groovity is a scripting language and runtime built upon a mature open-source foundation including Java, Groovy and Maven.
Contributions:13 releases, 4 commits, 3 PRs in 2 years 7 months
groovyjavamavenscripting-language
alexvigdor/djomo-core
Oct 2022 - May 2026
djomo :: dynamic json models for Java and JAX-RS
Contributions:2 PRs, 30 pushes, 14 branches in 3 years 8 months
serializationdynamic-jsonjaxjax-rsjava
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