Ashley Li
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAshley Li is a software engineer with 12 years of experience building reliable developer tools and low-level systems, currently contributing at Microsoft in Redmond. Her background spans embedded and design engineering at ARM, R&D at Synopsys, and backend work on high-impact open-source tooling like the NuGet.Client project, where she improved configuration, HTTP request controls, and repository API key support. She combines firmware and systems thinking from her early career with modern backend development practices, enabling pragmatic solutions for package management and developer workflows. Holding an M.S. from the University of Florida and a bachelor’s from Sun Yat-Sen University, she brings a cross-disciplinary perspective and a track record of shipping production fixes that improve developer experience.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Bachelor at Sun Yat-Sen UniversityM.S, M.S at University of Florida
Github Skills (12)
nuget10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
asp-net9
visual-studio-extension9
configuration-file9
dotnet9
configurations9
configuration-management9
net9
api-design6
rest-api4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
NuGet/NuGet.Client
Jan 2015 - Aug 2018
Client Tools for NuGet - including Visual Studio extensions, command line tools, and msbuild support. (Open issues on https://github.com/nuget/home/issues)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:386 commits, 344 PRs, 804 pushes in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Ashley contributed to the NuGet client tools, focusing on its configuration and the Visual Studio Package Manager extension. They implemented and fixed the functionality to allow the user to set the maximum HTTP request number to be made per source in NuGet.config file. Also, they were involved in the development of the API key support for different repositories. Moreover, the user made updates to the error message related to package versions, and handling exceptions.
command-line-toolmsbuildnugetvisual-studio-extensiondotnet
aelij/NuGet.Client
Aug 2016 - Aug 2017
Core client libraries for NuGet Services
Contributions:51 commits in 11 months
nuget
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