Chidozie Ononiwu is a Software Design Engineer at Microsoft with eight years of experience building and automating cloud-native developer workflows, particularly across the .NET stack and Azure. Comfortable with C#, ASP.NET, EF Core, TypeScript and Azure, he combines a formal background in electrical engineering and computer science with hands-on DevOps work improving CI/CD, release automation, and documentation for major Azure SDK repositories. At Microsoft he has shifted between backend development and DevOps roles, shipping fixes for build pipelines, test runs, and release-note generation that reduced manual effort for large multi-language SDKs. He values collaboration and accessibility, having built accessible front-end components early in his career and maintained tooling for web and e-commerce platforms. A detail-oriented engineer, he has a knack for converting documentation formats and scripting reliable automation that keeps large open-source projects reproducible and release-ready.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, 3.94, Computer Science, 3.94 at Bellevue College
Computer Science, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Graduate Certificate in Computer Science Fundamentals, Computer Science, Graduate Certificate in Computer Science Fundamentals, Computer Science at Seattle University
Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Covenant University
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:
Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:211 reviews, 484 commits, 732 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Chidozie primarily focused on enabling and testing the .NET framework within the Azure SDK for .NET repository. Their contributions included updating build definitions, enabling client test runs, and resolving compatibility issues for the .NET framework. The user also made changes to the project's build configuration and introduced new signing keys, reflecting an involvement in the project's build and release pipeline. Additionally, they addressed various compilation issues, demonstrating a focus on ensuring the code's functionality.
This repository is for active development of the Azure SDK for Python. For consumers of the SDK we recommend visiting our public developer docs at https://learn.microsoft.com/python/azure/ or our versioned developer docs at https://azure.github.io/azure-sdk-for-python.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Technical Writer
Contributions:139 reviews, 160 commits, 233 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Chidozie's contributions primarily revolved around enhancing documentation and streamlining the build process. They updated documentation formats, converting RST files to Markdown and modifying setup files to reflect these changes. Furthermore, the user implemented changes related to CI/CD pipelines, including moving release definitions and adjusting settings for the build process, improving automation. This user also modified a Python script for updating Changelogs, setting package versions, and handling package deployment in various environments.
pythonversionedazure-functionssdkazure-python
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Chidozie Ononiwu - Software Design Engineer at Microsoft