Alexander Batishchev
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Carnation, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAlexander Batishchev is a Principal Software Engineer with 17 years of experience designing and operating cloud-scale .NET web services and microservices on Azure, with deep expertise in Service Fabric, AKS/Kubernetes, and CI/CD. He has led cross-continental engineering teams and architected core infrastructure for Azure Throttling, resource providers, and control planes while championing security, compliance, and livesite reliability for sovereign and air-gapped clouds. A hands-on engineer and mentor, he combines systems thinking with pragmatic coding—contributing security-hardening fixes to popular .NET projects like jwt-dotnet and improving robustness in the Azure SDK. Based in Carnation, WA, he balances platform ownership with developer experience, often surfacing subtle telemetry and observability improvements that prevent production incidents.
17 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree Computer Software Engineering at Moscow State Institute of Radio Engineering, Electronics and Automation (Technical University)
Russian, English
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Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
jwt-dotnet/jwt
Oct 2014 - Jan 2023
Jwt.Net, a JWT (JSON Web Token) implementation for .NET
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:91 releases, 160 reviews, 169 commits in 8 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily contributed to the `jwt-dotnet/jwt` repository by modifying and refactoring the core JWT (JSON Web Token) implementation in C#. Their work included addressing potential vulnerabilities and improving the robustness of the token decoding process, as evidenced by the changes to the `JWT.Decode()` method. They also extracted a `Verify()` method and added a separate exception class, suggesting an effort to improve the code's maintainability and clarity within the .NET framework.
authorizationtokenjson-web-tokenweb-tokenc-sharp
Azure/azure-sdk-for-net
Sep 2020 - Mar 2021
This repository is for active development of the Azure SDK for .NET. For consumers of the SDK we recommend visiting our public developer docs at https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/azure/ or our versioned developer docs at https://azure.github.io/azure-sdk-for-net.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 7 commits, 17 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily contributed to the Azure SDK for .NET repository by modifying code related to core functionalities and storage connection string parsing. They made changes to improve code robustness and to improve user experience, by making changes to allow parsing of connection strings with all cases. The user also addressed environment-based credential management, utilizing string.IsNullOrEmpty() and adding tests. These changes suggest a focus on refining existing functionality and enhancing the SDK's reliability.
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