Ben Weedon
Senior Software Engineer at MathWorks
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Weedon is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building robust, versioned systems and high-performance APIs, currently working on accessibility at Microsoft and now at MathWorks. He has a track record of improving low-level platform components—boosting accessibility framework performance by 300%+, creating cross-version protocol versioning for OS/VM and VM/container orchestration, and contributing to microsoft/hcsshim to raise code quality. Known for deep technical breadth and a teaching-oriented leadership style, he frequently catches subtle bugs in reviews, authors fuzzers to find memory issues, and prototypes developer tooling for complex integrations. Comfortable interfacing with external customers and open-source communities, he blends systems-level engineering with practical developer experience improvements informed by a background in linguistics and computational linguistics teaching.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Brown University
English, French, Chinese
Github Skills (4)
testing10
go10
code-readability10
error-handling9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/hcsshim
Jul 2017 - Feb 2018
Windows - Host Compute Service Shim
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:60 commits, 2 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily focused on improving the codebase's quality and maintainability. They fixed golint warnings and removed unnecessary newlines, enhancing code readability. Their work involved making changes across various files, including those related to service and protocol aspects. Additionally, they contributed to tests within the storage component, simplifying loopback code and generating layer files dynamically.
shimwindowshostcompute
microsoft/Microsoft-UI-UIAutomation
Jul 2020 - Jun 2021
Utility library for consuming Windows UIAutomation platform APIs
Contributions:106 reviews, 6 commits, 24 PRs in 10 months
ui-automationwindows
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