Bertrand Le Roy
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Bellevue, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolBertrand Le Roy is a senior software engineer with over 30 years of professional experience who blends deep academic rigor in mathematical physics with hands-on product building and open-source leadership. He co-founded Orchard CMS, authored widely used modules including a full e-commerce stack, and single-handedly built DecentCMS in Node.js with comprehensive tests and documentation. At Microsoft he contributed to ASP.NET’s evolution, holds 12 patents, helped launch .NET Core, and today works on Azure Cognitive Search and the Visual Studio developer experience. He also co-founded a profitable hardware startup, Nwazet, turning open-source designs into shipped products and an online UI design tool for microcontrollers. A prolific writer and community builder, he has published hundreds of technical posts and helped grow Orchard to power over 100,000 sites while continuing to improve developer-facing docs and search skills on GitHub.
16 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
DEA, Physics, DEA, Physics at Ecole normale supérieure de LyonBachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics at Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1Mathematics and Physics, Math Sup, Math Spé M', Mathematics and Physics, Math Sup, Math Spé M' at Lycée Janson de SaillyPhD, Mathematical Physics, PhD, Mathematical Physics at Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)
French, English
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Github Skills (31)
markdown10
apim10
api-rest10
api-design10
restful-api10
web-content10
markdown-it10
api10
dotnet-core10
rest-api10
csharp10
content-model10
azure-cognitive-search10
documentation10
razor9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
Azure-Samples/azure-search-power-skills
Jun 2019 - Nov 2022
A collection of useful functions to be deployed as custom skills for Azure Cognitive Search
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:92 reviews, 119 commits, 142 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Bertrand contributed to the development of custom skills for Azure Cognitive Search. They primarily focused on creating and implementing back-end functionality, as demonstrated by the C# code changes in the `GeoPointFromName`, `BingEntitySearch`, `Tokenizer`, and `AnalyzeForm` skills. These skills involve interacting with external APIs (Azure Maps, Bing, Azure Form Recognizer) and processing data. They also refactored code and introduced common helpers to reduce boilerplate, and added new skills.
azure-cognitive-search
OrchardCMS/OrchardDoc
Nov 2011 - May 2016
Documentation for Orchard 1.x (not Orchard Core, for that see https://docs.orchardcore.net/).
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:208 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Bertrand primarily contributed to the Orchard CMS documentation repository, focusing on content updates and improvements. Their commits demonstrate a focus on refining existing documentation, adding new sections, and enhancing the overall presentation and structure of the content. The changes include modifications to layout files, CSS styling, and the addition of a table of contents feature. This suggests a commitment to making the documentation more user-friendly and comprehensive.
orchard-core
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