Anson Horton
Partner Software Architect at Microsoft
Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAnson Horton is a seasoned software architect with over a decade of experience shaping the Visual Studio platform at Microsoft, currently driving architecture for the VS shell, a cross-repo code language index service, and Visual Studio support for GitHub Codespaces. He blends hands-on engineering and team leadership—having led ~60 engineers delivering core VS platform releases—with deep expertise in developer tooling, language services, and performance diagnostics dating back to early C# and Visual C++ work. Known for shipping the first TypeScript-built tooling in VS and pioneering out-of-process service hubs used across products, he favors pragmatic, cross-team infrastructure that elevates developer productivity. Based in Washington, he pairs systems-level design with product sensibility and a track record of turning incubation prototypes into platform features used broadly across the division.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Maryland
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Github Skills (99)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ikeras/prtracker
Oct 2018 - Jan 2023
PRTracker runs in the task tray on Windows machines and keeps track of a configurable set of PR queries against VSTS accounts.
Contributions:1 review, 8 PRs, 10 pushes in 4 years 3 months
trayconfigurablewindowsvstsmachines
ikeras/Kettle
Oct 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:13 commits, 1 push in 21 days
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