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.
9 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 (17)
arduino-library5
arduino-uno5
speech4
stem4
arduino4
speech-to-text3
ntsc3
dotnet2
scripting2
samd212
attiny2
javascript2
mbed2
react2
arduino-ide2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
AndreNeedham/TinyLab
Aug 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:2 releases, 33 commits, 32 pushes in 25 days
AndreNeedham/TTS
Aug 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:2 pushes in 5 days
speech-to-textspeech-recognitionarduinospeechtts
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