Summary
Alex Wapniarski is a Software Engineer II at Microsoft with nine years of engineering experience, blending software development on the Cortana team with a foundation in mechanical engineering from UC Berkeley. He transitioned from mechanical design and teaching roles into software, bringing a systems-minded, hardware-aware perspective to cloud and assistant technologies. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Alex champions diversity and inclusion within his organization and is open to collaborations and conversations outside his team. He maintains a personal tech portfolio at alexw.tech and an active GitHub presence, reflecting a pragmatic, product-focused approach to building user-facing systems.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, B.S., Mechanical Engineering at University of California, Berkeley