Bill Barnes
Principal Software Engineer - Industry Solutions Engineering at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolBill Barnes is a Principal Software Engineer and industry solutions leader at Microsoft with over 10 years of focused experience helping enterprises adopt GenAI, design-first development, and delightful developer/user experiences. He combines hands-on front-end engineering—contributing to prominent open-source projects like Microsoft BotFramework-WebChat—with leadership roles that built and scaled teams for products such as Lobe and Power Apps AI. A former publisher and cartoonist who turned webcomics into a diversified business, he brings rare product, design, and storytelling instincts to technical strategy and partner co-innovation. Based in Seattle, he excels at translating messy, mission-critical partner problems into pragmatic prototypes and production-ready solutions. Known for blending UX sensibility with TypeScript fluency, he mentors cross-functional teams to ship pragmatic, user-centered AI experiences.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at American School in LondonMathematics Computer Science, Mathematics Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
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Github Skills (14)
html10
css10
uid10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
react10
bot-framework6
asynchronous6
namespaces6
voice6
nodejs6
fileio6
constructor6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/BotFramework-WebChat
Jun 2016 - Oct 2017
A highly-customizable web-based client for Azure Bot Services.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 522 commits, 297 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Bill primarily focused on developing and integrating user interface components for the Azure Bot Services client, as indicated by the code diffs related to public/app.js and src/directLine.ts. The user implemented and refined UI components by including adding the text for new message and updating code in public/app.js files. Their contributions included UI implementation and testing.
conversational-aibotchatazure-bothighly-customizable
johnshew/office-dashboard
Feb 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:84 commits, 23 PRs, 71 pushes in 3 months
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