Barry Tang
Group Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolBarry Tang is a seasoned software engineering leader with over 20 years at Microsoft and seven years in senior management roles shaping Visual Studio's web development and diagnostics experiences. As Group Software Engineering Manager in the Greater Seattle area, he combines deep product knowledge with hands-on front-end expertise, notably contributing Monaco editor fixes and autocompletion improvements to the well-known nteract interactive computing project. Barry excels at bridging developer tooling UX with robust engineering processes, mentoring teams to ship dependable features in large-scale desktop and diagnostic products. His background in computer engineering from UNSW grounds a pragmatic approach to complex tooling problems, and he brings an uncommon mix of long-term corporate product ownership and active open-source troubleshooting experience. Colleagues rely on him to translate subtle editor behaviors into measurable quality improvements that benefit millions of developers.
7 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
UNSW Sydney
Github Skills (11)
typescript10
react-components10
typescripts10
react10
monaco-editor10
react-component10
typescript-types10
javascript9
jupyter-notebook8
data-science5
ipython5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nteract/nteract
May 2021 - Oct 2022
📘 The interactive computing suite for you! ✨
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:17 reviews, 10 commits, 10 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Barry primarily contributed to the `nteract/nteract` repository by addressing issues related to the Monaco editor component. Their work focused on resolving bugs, such as fixing an issue in the monaco editor, optimizing the autocompletion feature for magic commands, and normalizing line endings in the code editor. The user also made updates to the connected-editors/monacoEditor.tsx and MonacoEditor.tsx and test cases, demonstrating expertise in the front-end development, particularly concerning the integration and behavior of the Monaco editor within the nteract interactive computing suite.
nteractdesktop-applicationmonoreporeactpython
barryt2/notebooks
Oct 2019 - Jun 2022
Contributions:76 commits, 72 pushes in 2 years 8 months
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