Alex Weininger
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Weininger is a Senior Software Engineer in Redmond with 11 years of experience focused on developer experience and tooling, currently building VS Code extensions for Azure using Node.js and TypeScript. At Microsoft he has progressed from intern to senior engineer, shipping UX and functionality improvements for the popular vscode-azurefunctions extension—fixing bugs, polishing command casing, and enabling opening projects in the current window. He combines full‑stack extension development with a background in machine learning research and web development from his University of Portland work, giving him both product-facing and research-informed perspectives. Alex is particularly skilled at turning developer pain points into pragmatic tooling improvements that scale across large cloud applications.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Mechanical Engineering and Software Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Software Engineering at Ohio Northern UniversityBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of Portland
English
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Github Skills (20)
javascript10
typescript10
microsoft-azure10
vscode10
typescript-types10
azure10
functionfs10
typescripts10
debug9
serverless9
apidoc8
api8
html6
package-lock-json6
css6
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/vscode-azurefunctions
Oct 2018 - Jan 2023
Azure Functions extension for VS Code
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:14 releases, 341 reviews, 120 commits in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Alex contributed to the Azure Functions extension for VS Code by addressing various issues, including bug fixes and feature enhancements. They made improvements to the user interface, such as correcting the casing of commands. The user also updated the extension's functionality by implementing the ability to open projects in the current window. Further, they fixed bugs relating to prompts and breaking changes.
functionsextension-functionsazure-functionsvscodeserverless
alexweininger/blog
Feb 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:23 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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