David Claux
Platform Architect - Microsoft Teams
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Claux is a seasoned platform architect at Microsoft Teams with over two decades of experience designing and shipping large-scale enterprise software. He blends deep engineering chops—from APIs and XAML UI frameworks to extensibility and tooling—with product leadership that produced foundational platforms like Adaptive Cards and Outlook Actionable Messages. At Microsoft he has repeatedly moved developer ecosystems forward, authoring the Adaptive Cards JS SDK and designer and shaping the EWS Managed API and Graph-era Outlook integrations. He has a long history of shipping cross‑platform developer experiences and improving developer productivity, often by creating extensibility points that enable rich third‑party integration. Based in Redmond, he pairs systems-level thinking with hands-on implementation, contributing bug fixes and new features to notable open-source repos such as the EWS Managed API. His career shows a pattern of taking legacy systems to modern, extensible architectures while keeping a developer-first focus.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer, Software design and development, systems and networks, Engineer, Software design and development, systems and networks at EPSI ParisDEUG A, Computer Sciences, Physics, Mathematics, DEUG A, Computer Sciences, Physics, Mathematics at Université Paris Cité
French, English
Github Skills (8)
api10
csharp10
apidoc10
webservice10
dotnet-core10
dotnet9
net9
asp-net9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
OfficeDev/ews-managed-api
Mar 2015 - Dec 2015
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 25 PRs, 10 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the Microsoft Exchange Web Services Managed API, porting updates, adding new functionalities like GetUserPhoto and FindPeople, and fixing bugs within the core service. They introduced new features such as FindPeople and GetPeopleInsights, and modified existing functionalities to include group scenarios. Furthermore, the user also addressed minor issues such as removing unused code and correcting incorrect logic, demonstrating a commitment to maintenance and feature development.
microsoft/AdaptiveCards
Nov 2016 - Mar 2022
A new way for developers to exchange card content in a common and consistent way.
Contributions:1 release, 280 reviews, 735 commits in 5 years 5 months
exchangeadaptiveioswpfadaptivecards
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