Alina Popa
Senior Developer In Test at WebMD Health Services
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlina Popa is a Senior Developer in Test with 11 years of software engineering experience, currently driving quality and test strategy at WebMD in Redmond, Washington. She combines a strong background in backend engineering from roles at Microsoft and Limeade with deep test automation and design skills, enabling reliable delivery across complex systems. Her open-source work on Microsoft’s .NET Portability Analyzer demonstrates expertise in .NET metadata and a knack for impactful refactors that improve dependency analysis. With a unique academic path from biochemistry and genetics to computing, she brings interdisciplinary problem-solving and attention to detail to software quality. Colleagues rely on her to translate low-level technical complexity into maintainable, testable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Genetics, Master's degree Genetics at Universitatea „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” din IașiBachelor's degree Computing and Software Systems, Bachelor's degree Computing and Software Systems at University of Washington Bothell
Github Skills (5)
csharp10
dependency-analysis10
toolz9
toolbox9
tooling9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/dotnet-apiport
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
This repo contains .NET Portability Analyzer (VSIX and Console) libraries and tools
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 17 PRs, 6 pushes in 5 days
Contributions summary:Alina primarily focused on refactoring and replacing the existing CCI-based dependency finding implementation with a new implementation utilizing System.Reflection.Metadata. This involved significant code modifications to the `DependencyFinderEngineHelper.cs`, `MemberMetadataInfo.cs` and associated files to parse and analyze metadata. The user's work is centered on improving the portability analysis capabilities of the tool by updating its core dependency resolution mechanisms. This also shows the user's proficiency in understanding and manipulating .NET metadata.
dotnetvsixvisual-studio-extensionmygetc-sharp
alinapopa/Windsor
Dec 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:201 pushes, 88 branches, 3 comments in 6 months
inversiondotnetsilverlightwindsorbreed
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