Alexander Kaplan
Principal Software Development Engineer at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarAlexander Kaplan is a Principal Software Development Engineer based in Seattle with 11 years of experience driving backend reliability and build engineering at Microsoft. He focuses on ensuring robust build configurations and dependency management for .NET projects, demonstrated by contributions to the widely used ApplicationInsights-dotnet repository. Comfortable operating at the intersection of developer tooling and production services, he regularly updates project files, NuGet references, and environment configuration to keep large codebases healthy. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who prefers preventing build-time surprises through meticulous configuration work rather than firefighting runtime issues.
11 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
dependency-management10
nuget10
netframework10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
msbuild9
azure-application-insights9
app-insights9
configuration-management9
azure8
microsoft-azure8
aspnet-web-api6
asp-net6
monitoring6
log4net6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/ApplicationInsights-dotnet
Mar 2016 - Jul 2021
ApplicationInsights-dotnet
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 reviews, 21 commits, 15 PRs in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Alexander's contributions primarily involve modifications to the project's build configuration and dependencies, specifically targeting .NET Framework 4.0. They've updated project files, including .csproj files, to include NuGet package references and manage dependencies like Microsoft.Diagnostics.Tracing.EventSource. They've also made changes related to environment variables and configuration settings. Their work suggests a focus on ensuring the application's build process and configuration are correctly set up.
dotnetapplication-insightstelemetrysdkazure
microsoft/ApplicationInsights-LocalForwarder
Aug 2018 - Oct 2018
Local Forwarder is an agent that collects Application Insights or OpenCensus telemetry from a variety of SDKs and routes it to the Application Insights backend.
Contributions:3 releases, 18 commits, 19 PRs in 2 months
backendopencensustelemetry
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