Brett Samblanet
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Mason, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolBrett Samblanet is a Principal Software Engineer with 11+ years at Microsoft driving backend and cloud developer experiences for Azure Functions, WebJobs, and mobile sync services. He combines deep .NET/C# expertise with hands-on contributions to high-profile open-source Azure projects—improving bindings, reliability of queue triggers, offline sync behaviors, and the out-of-process .NET worker. Known for pragmatic refactors and tooling improvements, he focuses on maintainability, diagnostics, and resilient RPC/logging mechanics that quietly raise platform quality. Based in Mason, Ohio, he brings a strong systems-analysis foundation and a history of moving features from SDKs into production-grade developer tooling.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Systems Analysis Computer Software Engineering, Systems Analysis Computer Software Engineering at Miami University
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-functions-dotnet-worker
Jul 2020 - Dec 2022
Azure Functions out-of-process .NET language worker
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 341 reviews, 65 commits in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Brett primarily focused on refactoring the folder structure, naming conventions, and core components of the .NET language worker for Azure Functions. Their contributions included changes to `FunctionBroker.cs`, `FunctionRpcClient.cs`, and `ServiceCollectionExtensions.cs`. The user also addressed issues related to logging and exception handling over RPC communication, suggesting a focus on improving the internal workings and reliability of the worker. Further efforts involved adding or modifying samples to support more method types and incorporating source generation for function metadata.
azure-functionsdotnetout-of-process
Azure/azure-functions-host
Apr 2016 - Dec 2022
The host/runtime that powers Azure Functions
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 releases, 725 reviews, 503 commits in 6 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Brett made several commits focused on updating package references, refactoring code, and implementing functionality related to function app settings and logging within the Azure Functions host runtime. They modified various project files, including .csproj files, to incorporate updated extensions. The user also made changes to adjust the .NET runtime assembly loading behavior as well as the code for the host to support the application insights component, including code for creating, writing to, and controlling the lifecycle of the same.
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