Brandon Chong
Prompt Engineer at NMSI INC.
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrandon Chong is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience designing and implementing customer-focused systems, currently based in Redmond, Washington. He has deep expertise in distributed query engines and cloud databases from multi-year roles on Azure Cosmos DB at Microsoft and progressive engineering leadership positions at Dremio. Brandon contributes to prominent open-source work—helping evolve the .NET SDK for Azure Cosmos DB—demonstrating attention to internal object models and test coverage that improve library robustness. He blends systems-level thinking with practical product sensibilities, having implemented query validation, planning, and performance-oriented changes across large-scale data platforms. A former CS course assistant and section leader at UIUC, he pairs strong mentoring and teaching chops with hands-on engineering.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignHigh School, High School at Harvard-Westlake School
Github Skills (8)
net10
asp-net10
json10
dotnet10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
azure-cosmos-db10
unit-testing9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-cosmos-dotnet-v3
Mar 2019 - Apr 2021
.NET SDK for Azure Cosmos DB for the core SQL API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:493 reviews, 569 commits, 227 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Brandon primarily contributed to the development of the .NET SDK for Azure Cosmos DB, specifically focusing on the implementation and testing of the CosmosElements Object Model. Their work included porting tests for reader writer navigator and added test cases. Furthermore, they made the CosmosBoolean and CosmosNull sealed types, which indicates a focus on improving the internal structure of the library.
azure-cosmos-dbdotnetsql
bchong95/bchong95.github.io
Mar 2016 - Mar 2022
Contributions:97 pushes, 1 branch, 4 issues in 6 years
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