Benjamin Beaudry
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Beaudry is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft with six years of professional experience building and shipping production software since graduating in software engineering. He has progressed through multiple engineering levels at Microsoft, demonstrating sustained impact on consumer-facing code and platform quality. Benjamin contributes to accessibility in high-profile open-source projects like Chromium, fixing screen reader behavior and navigation—work that reflects a focus on inclusive UX beyond typical backend/frontend responsibilities. Based in Redmond, he combines practical engineering with attention to edge-case reliability and test restoration, having twice tackled flaky accessibility tests and architectural DEPS issues. Colleagues can expect a pragmatic engineer who balances feature delivery with improving long-term maintainability and accessibility.
7 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Baccalauréat, Génie logiciel, Baccalauréat, Génie logiciel at Université de Montréal - École Polytechnique de Montréal
Github Skills (8)
accessibility10
chromium10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
ui-design8
ws-api6
winapi6
wp-api6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
chromium/chromium
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
The official GitHub mirror of the Chromium source
Role in this project:
Accessibility Specialist
Accessibility SpecialistContributions:9 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily focuses on improving accessibility features within the Chromium project. Their commits address issues related to screen reader announcements and navigation within the browser, specifically fixing caret navigation in the omnibox. They also fix and re-enable accessibility tests, and address a DEPS violation related to accessibility. Additionally, the user made changes to disable the old accessibility tree for views and created an instance of BrowserViewsAXManager in the correct place.
chromiumbrowser
oSamDavis/Keeper-WebApp
Jun 2021 - Jun 2021
A simple UI of a note keeper app made using React
Contributions:3 reviews, 7 comments in 1 day
reactjsreactkeepersimple-ui
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