Chango Valtchev
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolChango Valtchev is a Principal Software Engineer based in Redmond with over a decade of experience building cloud and virtualization platforms at Microsoft. He has driven foundational work across WPF AppModel, System Center virtualization management, App Controller convergence, and Azure Compute Resource Provider while continuing to support Azure Stack toward a unified Microsoft cloud. Deeply versed in API and framework design, OOP and design patterns, REST/OData, distributed protocols, and stateful workflow orchestration, he combines low-level debugging (assembly to datacenter) with large-scale plumbing and DevOps practices. Known as a "software artisan in the cloud," he also brings expertise in security, networking, (de)compilation and code generation—skills that surface in both product-grade services and tooling. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex distributed requirements into robust, maintainable systems that operate in production at massive scale.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Boston University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (79)
azure-functions10
microsoft-azure10
arm10
azure-sdk10
dotnet10
sdk10
powershell10
azure10
csharp10
microsoft10
dotnet-core10
visual-studio9
arm-templates9
roslyn8
monitoring8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
changov/azure-docs
Apr 2020 - Mar 2025
Open source documentation of Microsoft Azure
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 11 months
azuremicrosoft-azuremicrosoft
MicrosoftDocs/azure-docs
Mar 2020 - Mar 2025
Open source documentation of Microsoft Azure
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 comment, 2 issues in 5 years
azuremicrosoft-azuremicrosoftskilling
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