Andre Needham
Software Design Engineer In Test at Seattle Eastside
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndre Needham is a seasoned Software Design Engineer in Test with two decades of experience delivering more reliable, secure Windows UI frameworks and tooling from Redmond. He has a long track record at Microsoft driving testing ownership across XAML, WPF, and WinForms—building model-based test tools, leading stress and security testing, and improving team efficiency through automation and coverage initiatives. Known for writing critical test utilities, he combines hands-on debugging with program-level coordination to raise product quality and meet division-wide security goals. Collected experience across manual and automated approaches enables him to translate complex feature requirements into targeted, high-impact test strategies. Though now based outside core product teams, his background uniquely blends deep platform knowledge with practical tool-building that amplifies team productivity.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science / Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science / Mathematics at University of Puget Sound
English, French
Github Skills (14)
circuit7
teensy6
speech6
uno5
esp82665
arduino5
text-to-speech5
esp325
arduino-library4
ntsc3
react3
scripting2
javascript2
csharp2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
AndreNeedham/TinyLab
Aug 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:2 releases, 33 commits, 32 pushes in 25 days
AndreNeedham/MileBones
Jul 2025 - Aug 2025
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 6 days
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