Bob German
Retired, Still Coding And Tinkering at Self.
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBob German is a retired but still hands-on Microsoft 365 cloud developer advocate and architect with over three decades of experience building collaboration, intranet, and scalable web solutions. He spent 16 years at Microsoft and later served as a Partner Technology Architect and Cloud Developer Advocate, helping partners and developers adopt Teams, SharePoint, Graph API, and Azure while producing samples, talks, and tooling. As a prolific contributor to Microsoft Teams samples and pnp repos, he has practical full-stack chops—TypeScript/React/SPFx front ends, C# back ends, and chatbot state-management—demonstrated by work on consulting bots and SSO-enabled Teams samples. Known for pragmatic architecture and performance-minded engineering, he pairs deep platform knowledge with a preference for connecting only with people he’s met, even online. Based in Greater Boston, he combines veteran systems-level experience (dating back to protocol stacks and fault-tolerant systems) with a continual curiosity for tinkering and publishing community-focused code.
11 years of coding experience
42 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science major minors in Economics and Writing, BS Computer Science major minors in Economics and Writing at Framingham State University
Github Skills (24)
ss10
javascript10
single-sign-on10
spfx10
sharepoint-framework10
typescript10
dialog10
typescript-types10
dotnet-core10
dialogflow10
bot-framework10
microsoft-teams10
typescripts10
csharp10
dialogs10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
pnp/teams-dev-samples
Apr 2020 - Jan 2023
Microsoft Teams sample applications and related content https://aka.ms/teams-samples
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 662 commits, 1004 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Bob's contributions involve the development of a consulting bot. This is evidenced by the addition of a BillProjectDialog.cs file that includes features for project name resolution, time tracking, and work date management. Furthermore, they added a statebot sample, which illustrates the development of a bot designed to handle user input and conversation state using JavaScript and botbuilder libraries. The user also implemented two tab samples (SPFx), which suggests their work spans both front-end and back-end development.
microsoft-teams
OfficeDev/Microsoft-Teams-Samples
Jan 2021 - Jan 2021
Welcome to the Microsoft Teams samples repository. Here you will find task-focused samples in C#, JavaScript and TypeScript to help you get started with the Microsoft Teams App!
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 3 PRs in 2 days
Contributions summary:Bob primarily focused on developing Microsoft Teams application features, specifically implementing and fixing configuration pages. They worked on both the front-end (React/TypeScript/JavaScript) and back-end (implied by the API server code) aspects of the application. The contributions involved modifying tab configurations, integrating Single Sign-On (SSO) functionality, and addressing compiler errors. The user's work resulted in enhanced SSO integration and resolution of key configuration issues within the Teams application samples.
csharpjavascriptmicrosoft-teamstypescript
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