Cesar De La Torre
Principal Technical Program Manager - Microsoft CoreAI
Böblingen, Baden-Württemberg, United States
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Top SchoolCesar De La Torre is a Principal Technical Program Manager at Microsoft with 14 years of experience building developer tools, cloud and AI platforms, currently focused on CoreAI efforts that power GitHub Copilot and Visual Studio experiences. He combines hands-on software architecture and full-stack development with program leadership—contributions include work on Microsoft’s flagship eShopOnContainers sample and ML.NET samples where he implemented backend features, cloud containerization, and model visualization. His career spans roles across Azure, Visual Studio, and ML product groups, reflecting deep expertise in modernizing legacy systems, container-based deployments, and AI/ML integration. Based in Böblingen but with a global Microsoft footprint, he brings a practitioner’s mindset from co-founding a solutions firm to shaping strategic platform initiatives. A detail that sets him apart is his blend of developer-first engineering (extending build pipelines and UI integration) with strategic program delivery for AI-native developer tooling.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Courses Machine Learning, Courses Machine Learning at University of WashingtonBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Universidad Pontificia Comillas
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Github Skills (35)
asp-net-core-mvc10
docker10
deploying10
mldotnet10
net10
machine-learning10
microservices-application10
dotnet10
microsoft-azure10
containerization10
dockers10
deployer10
asp-net10
azure-service-fabric10
azure-deployment10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
dotnet/machinelearning-samples
Jul 2018 - Nov 2019
Samples for ML.NET, an open source and cross-platform machine learning framework for .NET.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & ML Engineer
Back-end Developer & ML EngineerContributions:2 releases, 572 commits, 278 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Cesar made significant contributions to the GitHub Labeler sample, focusing on refactoring configuration settings, renaming variables for clarity, and integrating a new feature for paint regression distribution chart. The user's work involved modifying the program to utilize `appsettings.json` for .NET Core apps. Moreover, the user introduced and implemented code for generating and visualizing the model's performance.
machine-learning-platformdotnetml-netmlmachine-learning
dotnet-architecture/eShopOnContainers
Oct 2016 - Jan 2019
Cross-platform .NET sample microservices and container based application that runs on Linux Windows and macOS. Powered by .NET 7, Docker Containers and Azure Kubernetes Services. Supports Visual Studio, VS for Mac and CLI based environments with Docker CLI, dotnet CLI, VS Code or any other code editor. Moved to https://github.com/dotnet/eShop.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:630 commits, 99 PRs, 420 pushes in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Cesar primarily contributed to the development of the eShopOnContainers application, focusing on both backend and frontend aspects. Their work included implementing account-related features within the WebMVC application, extending build scripts for image creation with .NET Core, and consuming microservices from the WebMVC application. Additionally, the user updated the SQL database and refactored parts of the Ordering domain model. They also made several minor UI changes and improvements.
azure-kubernetesddd-patternsdocker-containerscliazure-kubernetes-services
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