Bill Wert
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Bellevue, Washington, United States
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RockstarBill Wert is a senior software engineer with 11+ years of experience at Microsoft focused on improving customer experiences, performance, and diagnosability across cloud-native and runtime platforms. He currently builds data-management and efficiency solutions for business customers using Azure and Microsoft 365, and has deep hands-on expertise contributing performance and back-end fixes to high-profile open-source projects like the .NET runtime and Azure SDK for Java. Bill’s work spans performance engineering, CI and benchmarking infrastructure, and managed identity/App Service integrations, reflecting a blend of systems-level skill and product-focused empathy. Known for turning complex performance scenarios into reliable test pipelines, he also brings a long history of guiding teams to capture direct customer feedback and model real-world behaviors.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (28)
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azure-sdk10
testing10
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microsoft-azure10
java10
performance-testing10
netframework10
javas10
app-service10
dotnet-core10
powershell10
azure10
csharp10
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
dotnet/performance
Mar 2019 - Oct 2021
This repo contains benchmarks used for testing the performance of all .NET Runtimes
Role in this project:
Performance Engineer
Performance EngineerContributions:140 reviews, 101 commits, 310 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Bill primarily contributes to performance testing and optimization within the .NET runtime environment. Their commits involve fixing test initialization, implementing basic result comparisons, reacting to API changes, fixing existing tests, and adding a new reporting library. These contributions focus on enhancing the accuracy and efficiency of the performance benchmarks used to evaluate .NET runtimes.
dotnetbenchmarkingruntimestestingbenchmark
Azure/azure-sdk-for-java
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
This repository is for active development of the Azure SDK for Java. For consumers of the SDK we recommend visiting our public developer docs at https://docs.microsoft.com/java/azure/ or our versioned developer docs at https://azure.github.io/azure-sdk-for-java.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:660 reviews, 47 commits, 502 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Bill primarily focused on enhancing the Azure SDK for Java, particularly related to Managed Identity and App Service integration. Their contributions involved adding the ability to use a managed identity resource ID for supported services, adding tests, and fixing identified errors. Further work included updating code and configurations to leverage the 2019 endpoint for App Service, and reintroducing fallback mechanisms. They also made improvements to tests and documentation.
azure-resourcesversionedazure-functionssdkazure-services
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