Dany Khalife
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolDany Khalife is a Principal Software Engineer with nine years of experience driving feature development and engineering improvements at Microsoft, currently focused on standardizing release processes across the company. He blends user-facing product work—like leading Copilot integration and canvas innovations in OneNote—with deep investments in tooling, build systems, and CI/CD to speed developer inner loops. Known for introducing design review practices, migrating legacy code and tooling to modern workflows, and achieving measurable performance wins (e.g., compositor-led boot and memory improvements), he excels at taking projects from prototype to production. Dany also has a track record of simplifying operations by decommissioning legacy services and reducing maintenance costs. Based in Redmond, he combines contagious enthusiasm with pragmatic systems thinking and a knack for rallying cross-team adoption of engineering best practices. Beyond core product work, he’s improved developer productivity through clang toolchain enablement and grassroots culture shifts that cut change turnaround to under a business day.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Baccalauréat General Sciences, Baccalauréat General Sciences at École des Frères Mont La SalleBachelor’s Degree Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Software Engineering at Polytechnique Montréal
English, French, Spanish, Arabic
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Github Skills (44)
todolist10
finance10
laravel10
office-js10
tasks9
xbox9
php9
react9
docker8
task-manager8
npm-package8
uwp8
react-components8
microsoft7
javascript7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
dkhalife/tasks-frontend
Dec 2024 - Mar 2025
Task Wizard Frontend
Contributions:9 reviews, 225 PRs, 213 pushes in 2 months
dkhalife/tasks-backend
Dec 2024 - Mar 2025
Task Wizard is a free and open-source app designed to help manage tasks effectively. Its primary focus is to give users control over data and allow them to build integrations around it however they choose to.
Contributions:2 reviews, 173 PRs, 187 pushes in 2 months
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