Alexander Koren
Senior Developer Advocate & Technical Writer
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAlexander Koren is a Senior Developer Advocate and Technical Writer with a decade of experience translating complex cloud and developer tooling into clear, usable guidance. Currently at Citadel after technical writing roles at Google and Microsoft, he blends deep engineering knowledge with communication craft to help teams adopt secure, scalable .NET and Azure patterns. His open-source contributions include IAM-focused .NET samples for Google Cloud and adaptive UI improvements for a Microsoft Azure-backed Windows app, showing fluency across back-end security and front-end UX. Based in Seattle and educated in Computer Science and English at Vassar, he uniquely pairs technical rigor with narrative clarity to make sophisticated systems accessible. Colleagues rely on him to bridge developer experience, documentation, and practical sample code that can be dropped into production.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science, English, Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science, English at Vassar College
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (24)
google-cloud-platform10
xaml10
isam10
identity10
windows-application10
net10
sample-size10
dotnet10
ui-design10
identity-management10
windows-app10
gcp10
sample-rate10
asp-net10
uid10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/Windows-appsample-customers-orders-database
Sep 2016 - Feb 2018
This code demonstrates a working customer order database hosted on Azure, implemented in C# and XAML, and ready to form the basis of your Windows Store enterprise app.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:55 commits, 12 pushes, 8 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Alexander's commits primarily focus on updating the user interface and enhancing the overall user experience of the application. They implemented adaptive UI features, making the application more responsive across different devices. The contributions include changes to customer detail pages, customer list pages, and search box controls, indicating a focus on improving data presentation and user interaction. Additional updates to command bars and other UI elements across multiple files suggest a methodical approach to enhance the usability and look and feel of the Windows application.
azurecsharpdatabasewindowswindows-store
GoogleCloudPlatform/dotnet-docs-samples
Jul 2018 - Feb 2019
.NET code samples used on https://cloud.google.com
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 3 PRs, 4 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Alexander contributed to the .NET code samples within the repository, primarily focusing on Identity and Access Management (IAM) functionality. They added new IAM code snippets, including creating, listing, renaming, and deleting service accounts. Their work also involved creating and managing service account keys, and they integrated the code samples with the project's options and testing frameworks.
dotnet
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