Alexander Zaslonov
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Snoqualmie, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Zaslonov is a Principal Software Engineer with over a decade of experience building developer-facing platforms and tooling, currently leading engineering for Azure API Center at Microsoft. He combines deep front-end expertise and UX passion with API management domain knowledge, having driven the customizable Azure API Management developer portal and contributed interactive console features to the popular Azure API Management developer-portal repo. A co-founder of Paperbits and former chief architect of APIphany, he blends startup pragmatism with enterprise-grade engineering practices around inventory, governance, and API discoverability. Alexander is known for shipping practical design-time governance and linting integrations (e.g., Spectral) that improve API quality across large organizations. Based in Snoqualmie, WA, he mentors teams to turn complex API ecosystems into searchable, consumable catalogs while still staying hands-on with UI and tooling work. His background spans payments, transit data, and large-scale web apps, giving him a rare mix of product empathy and systems-level rigor.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer, Automated systems of information processing and management, Engineer, Automated systems of information processing and management at Ural State Technical University
English, Russian
Github Skills (8)
typescript10
typescripts10
knockoutjs10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
javascript9
html8
api-design8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/api-management-developer-portal
Feb 2019 - Jan 2023
Developer portal provided by the Azure API Management service.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:350 reviews, 626 commits, 851 PRs in 4 years
Contributions summary:Alexander's contributions center around adding source files, likely for new UI components or features. These commits involve changes to the `src/components/runtime/operation-console/operation-console.ts` file, which suggests work on the developer portal's interactive API console, including features such as request parameter and header input and a file input component. The changes in the HTML file also indicate the modification of the UI and user interactions within the API console.
apiservice-managementportalazure-api-managementapi-management
paperbits/paperbits-react
Mar 2021 - Nov 2022
This repository contains modules required to create widgets implemented with React.
Contributions:11 commits, 16 pushes in 1 year 7 months
paperbitsreactwidgetwidgetsflutter
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