Cecilia Avila
Lead Software Engineer at SOUTHWORKS
Buenos Aires, Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Top SchoolCecilia Avila is a Lead Software Engineer based in Buenos Aires with 7 years of experience building and maintaining enterprise systems and conversational bots for Microsoft’s Bot Framework. She combines legacy mainframe expertise (COBOL, CICS, JCL, DB2) with modern backend development in C#, Node.js and Python, and hands-on DevOps using Azure Pipelines. At Southworks she led client-facing development for BotFramework repos, shipping features and fixes across .NET, JS and Python SDKs and contributing notable samples and CloudAdapter migrations. Her background in banking systems gives her strong discipline in testing, data integrity and batch/online processing workflows. Comfortable switching between core maintenance tasks and new feature implementation, she is known for resolving tricky integration issues and improving library reliability through unit tests and memory-leak fixes. Interested in growing within systems development, she blends practical production experience with active open-source collaboration on high-profile Microsoft projects.
7 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Analista de Sistemas, Análisis de sistemas informáticos/Analista, Analista de Sistemas, Análisis de sistemas informáticos/Analista at Universidad Argentina 'John F. Kennedy'
English
Github Skills (34)
unit-testing10
debugging10
debug10
javascript10
python10
microsoft10
net10
bots10
typescript10
dotnet10
ui-design10
dialog10
asp-net10
uid10
api10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/BotBuilder-Samples
Jan 2020 - Nov 2022
Welcome to the Bot Framework samples repository. Here you will find task-focused samples in C#, JavaScript/TypeScript, and Python to help you get started with the Bot Framework SDK!
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:9 reviews, 80 commits, 51 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Cecilia's primary contribution was the addition of the Webex Adapter Bot sample, which included setting up error handling, and integration of adaptive cards, as well as updating NuGet package versions to align with latest preview releases. The user also made various changes to the code, including updating and fixing the registration of adapters in the startup of the sample. They also migrated C# samples to CloudAdapter, and other general improvements and migration of js samples to CloudAdapter across the repo.
botmicrosoft-cognitive-servicesjavascriptyeomanfocused
microsoft/botbuilder-dotnet
Jan 2019 - Jan 2023
Welcome to the Bot Framework SDK for .NET repository, which is the home for the libraries and packages that enable developers to build sophisticated bot applications using .NET.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:46 reviews, 329 commits, 174 PRs in 4 years
Contributions summary:Cecilia contributed significantly to the `microsoft/botbuilder-dotnet` repository, primarily by adding and modifying features related to channel data. They implemented support for the `ChannelData` field in the `ConversationReference` class and integrated it within the `BotFrameworkAdapter`. The user also fixed parameter initialization issues in the `ConversationReference` class.
dotnetsdk-frameworkdotnet-core2botsdk
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