Avery Dunn
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAvery Dunn is a software engineer with six years of experience building reliable backend systems, currently contributing to Microsoft from Redmond, Washington. She joined Microsoft in 2020 after three years developing software at WEX, bringing practical experience in production engineering and iterative code quality improvements. Avery has contributed to the widely used Microsoft Authentication Library for Java, focusing on backend robustness, iterator handling, client capabilities, and test coverage—work that emphasizes maintainability and security. Trained in computer science at the University of Maine, she combines solid academic foundations with hands-on enterprise engineering. Colleagues would describe her as detail-oriented and pragmatic, often spotting edge cases and cleaning up technical debt. Outside of product work she demonstrates a preference for thoughtful refactors that reduce complexity and improve long-term stability.
6 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at University of Maine
Github Skills (6)
javas10
api10
apidoc10
java10
testing10
json9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
AzureAD/microsoft-authentication-library-for-java
Mar 2020 - Jan 2023
Microsoft Authentication Library (MSAL) for Java http://aka.ms/aadv2
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 releases, 263 reviews, 106 commits in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Avery primarily contributed to the back-end of the Microsoft Authentication Library for Java. Their work involved fixing typos, adding an optional parameter for client capabilities, and adding tests for those capabilities. They also refactored code to handle iterators better and made several code cleanup changes.
azure-active-directorysingle-page-applicationauthenticationmicrosoft-authentication-librarymicrosoft-authentication
Azure-Samples/ms-identity-msal-java-samples
Feb 2022 - Apr 2022
Contributions:18 reviews, 7 commits, 17 PRs in 1 month
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