BrianĀ B
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Avon, Connecticut, United States
Summary
š¤©
RockstarBrian B is a Principal Software Engineer with nine years of experience building scalable, reliable backend systems at Microsoft from his base in Avon, Connecticut. He specializes in improving build and storage infrastructureāleading cross-team efforts to enable multi-repository packaging protocols, reworking database procedures to cut 99th percentile UI query latency by 20 seconds, and driving cost and performance improvements. A hands-on leader, he has steered feature teams of up to five engineers, coordinated technical agreement across 20-engineer efforts, and partnered closely with product and customers to evolve features into polished products. His open-source contributions to the widely used microsoft/azure-pipelines-agent emphasize robustness and DevOps ergonomics, adding retries, better error handling, and multi-domain artifact support. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex distributed-systems tradeoffs into practical, measurable roadmaps that scale.
8 years of coding experience
Github Skills (12)
azure-pipelines10
error-handling10
cicd10
csharp9
dotnet-core9
asp-net9
dotnet9
net9
dependency-management8
azure-devops7
testing7
azure-devops-server7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/azure-pipelines-agent
Nov 2019 - Feb 2022
Azure Pipelines Agent š
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:20 reviews, 7 commits, 25 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Brian contributed to the Azure Pipelines Agent, focusing on improving its robustness and efficiency. Their work includes implementing retries for artifact uploads and client creation, enhancing the error handling for pipeline caching, and enabling environment variable configuration for tar location. The user also addressed issues related to multiple domain support for build artifacts. These contributions demonstrate a focus on improving the reliability and flexibility of the agent's core functionalities.
azure-pipelines-agentazure-pipelinesagentazurepipelines
b-barthel/azure-pipelines-agent
Nov 2019 - Jan 2024
Azure Pipelines Agent š
Contributions:7 PRs, 18 pushes, 9 branches in 4 years 3 months
azure-pipelines-agentazure-pipelinesagentazurepipelines
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWeāve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.