Bill Schnurr
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolBill Schnurr is a senior software engineer and generalist programmer with over a decade of professional experience across games, mobile iOS, and online services, now focused on Python tooling and AI at Microsoft. He’s shipped everything from rendering and level editors to mobile clients and backend services, and currently contributes to high-profile open-source projects like Pyright and the VS Code Python extension. Known for optimization, tool and pipeline improvements, and fast iteration, he has a strong track record of debugging tricky platform-specific issues and improving developer productivity. Based in Vancouver with a Computer Engineering degree from the University of Toronto, he studies machine learning in his spare time and enjoys tackling interesting, non-obvious engineering problems.
7 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer Engineering, Bachelor, Computer Engineering at University of Toronto
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Github Skills (25)
debug10
type-check10
pytest10
python10
language-server-protocol10
language-server10
type-checking10
telemetry10
test-automation10
visual-studio-code-extension9
debugging9
code-completion9
zeromq8
refactoring8
typescripts8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/PTVS
Apr 2019 - Dec 2022
Python Tools for Visual Studio
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:227 reviews, 172 commits, 273 PRs in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Bill primarily focused on debugging and improving the Python Tools for Visual Studio (PTVS) extension. They fixed a repl hang related to pyzmq and implemented a timeout for the get_shell_msg function. They also fixed various issues related to pytest, including handling edge cases with parameterized tests, handling unicode issues with test names, and enabling the automatic output logging in junit test results. The user made various improvements related to test discovery and execution in the pytest unit tests.
python-toolspythonptvsvisual-studio
microsoft/pyright
Jun 2020 - Nov 2022
Static Type Checker for Python
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 releases, 89 reviews, 23 commits in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Bill contributed to the Pyright project by addressing bugs and improving its core functionalities. Their work includes fixing import-related issues, enhancing progress reporting, and resolving test failures on specific platforms. The user also added features like dictionary key completion and made enhancements to documentation highlighting. Furthermore, the user refactored the file system and crypto components for platform abstraction.
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