Alexandra Xfield

Redmond, Washington, United States

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Alexandra Xfield is a data engineer and AI operations leader with over a decade of experience designing learning programs and six years in software/data engineering roles, blending deep human-centered learning expertise with hands-on engineering. She led annotation and data-collection teams at Microsoft to improve speech recognition across products, building QA pipelines and cross-functional processes that translated user-focused pedagogy into reliable AI training data. Her open-source contributions include backend development and test automation for the Azure Quantum .NET SDK, showing comfort with cloud-scale tooling and rigorous testing practices. With a Master’s in Education, PhD work in Leadership & Organizations, and certificates in change management and positive psychology, she uniquely bridges adult learning, change adoption, and technical delivery. Based in Redmond, she thrives on improving processes and experiences to help teams identify and grow the skills needed to execute high-quality AI and data work.

6 years of coding experience

23 years of employment as a software developer

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Leadership and Organizations, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Leadership and Organizations at University of Washington

Certificate in Applied Positive Psychology Psychology, Certificate in Applied Positive Psychology Psychology at The Flourishing Center

Certificate Trainer of Trainers, Certificate Trainer of Trainers at TESOL

Specialization Applied Linguistics, Specialization Applied Linguistics at Universidade Estadual de Campinas

Certificate Thinking and Understanding, Certificate Thinking and Understanding at Harvard Graduate School of Education

French, Spanish, Portuguese, English

Github Skills (9)

net10

asp-net10

dotnet10

csharp10

azure-sdk10

dotnet-core10

testing10

microsoft-azure9

azure9

Programming languages (14)

C#PowerShellJavaRustHTMLJupyter NotebookTypeScriptDockerfile

Github contributions (5)

Azure/azure-sdk-for-net

Jan 2021 - Jan 2022

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 & Test Automation Engineer

Contributions:9 reviews, 16 commits, 26 PRs in 11 months

Contributions summary:Alexandra primarily contributed to the development and testing of the Azure Quantum Management client SDK for .NET. They worked on the initial code generation of the Azure Quantum ControlPlane SDK, including updates to versioning, assembly information, and tests. The user also added new test cases and improved existing logic, suggesting a focus on ensuring the reliability and functionality of the Quantum SDK. Furthermore, the user addressed authentication issues and enhanced testing practices, demonstrating a good understanding of the project's core functionalities.

azureazure-sdkdotnetmicrosoftc-sharp

microsoft/azure-quantum-python

Jan 2021 - Jan 2023

The azure-quantum python package submits jobs to the Azure Quantum service.

Contributions:133 reviews, 54 commits, 158 PRs in 2 years

azurepythonquantumazure-sdk-for-pythonmicrosoft

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