Bruce Johnston
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolBruce Johnston is a Principal Software Engineer with nearly 25 years of "developing for developers" experience, specializing in compilers, query processors, cloud services, and developer experience. He led the Azure AI Search developer experience from inception through major API and security improvements and now architects compiler features for Microsoft's exabyte-scale Cosmos SCOPE platform. Deeply pragmatic in C#, C++ and F#, he blends systems-level language and compiler design with API and cloud-service engineering to simplify how developers build and scale data-intensive systems. His work spans designing language features (parameterized modules, regex metaprogramming), evolving SDKs and reducing cloud COGS through tooling and performance optimization. An active open-source contributor, he has fixed build and test issues across prominent Azure SDK repos and improved OData/WebApi behaviors used by many projects. Based in Vancouver, he thrives where technically challenging problems meet measurable developer productivity gains.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computing Science, Software Engineering Specialization, BSc, Computing Science, Software Engineering Specialization at Simon Fraser University
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Github Skills (30)
azure-sdk10
testing10
net10
dotnet10
build-system10
asp-net-core10
java10
asp-net10
javas10
dotnet-core10
azure10
csharp10
odata10
e2e-test9
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
Azure-Samples/search-dotnet-getting-started
Jan 2016 - Apr 2018
Getting Started with Azure Search using .NET
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:45 commits, 48 PRs, 30 pushes in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Bruce primarily contributed to the .NET samples related to Azure Search. Their work involved updating and adapting existing samples to align with new SDK versions and features. They updated project files, modified code to reflect schema changes, and updated dependencies for the Azure Search SDK. They also focused on making the search functionality working correctly and also refactored the code to include additional examples.
dotnetcsharpazure-searchazure
Azure/azure-sdk-for-net
Mar 2015 - Feb 2020
This repository is for active development of the Azure SDK for .NET. For consumers of the SDK we recommend visiting our public developer docs at https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/azure/ or our versioned developer docs at https://azure.github.io/azure-sdk-for-net.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 reviews, 358 commits, 335 PRs in 5 years
Contributions summary:Bruce's commits focused on adding and modifying components within the Azure Search SDK, specifically related to the Search SDK features. The contributions include adding features to the Search SDK and fixing the NUSPEC file for Windows Phone 8.1 application, as well as making changes to the generated files in src. These changes mainly focused on adding methods and modifying classes.
dotnetversionedazure-functionssdkconsumers
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