David Federman
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Renton, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Federman is a software engineer with a decade of experience building and optimizing developer tooling and web libraries, currently at Microsoft in Renton, WA. He has contributed to high-profile open-source projects such as MSBuild and BuildXL, focusing on build performance, prediction tooling, and allocation reduction to make large-scale .NET builds more efficient. On the front end he has improved the Microsoft Teams JavaScript library by adding deep-linking, robust initialization/versioning, and test coverage, plus documentation automation from JSON schema. His background spans full-stack web development from an early role at White Glove Technologies to sustained systems work at Microsoft, grounded in a Computer Science degree from UT Austin. David combines attention to low-level performance and practical developer experience improvements, a mix that often surfaces in behind-the-scenes optimizations rather than flashy user-facing features.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
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Github Skills (31)
javascript10
msbuild10
typescript10
build-system10
netframework10
build-automation10
typescript-types10
dotnet-core10
typescripts10
csharp10
dotnet9
refactor9
document-generation9
net9
performance-optimization9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
dotnet/msbuild
Jun 2018 - Jan 2023
The Microsoft Build Engine (MSBuild) is the build platform for .NET and Visual Studio.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:220 reviews, 68 commits, 124 PRs in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:David contributed to allocation reduction and code refactoring within the MSBuild codebase. They made changes to the FileTracker, ToolLocationHelper, and CanonicalTrackedFilesHelper classes, suggesting a focus on performance and maintainability. The user also made changes to the project graph functionality by implementing interfaces and stubs and added the /graphBuild argument.
build-enginedotnetmsbuildvisual-studiomicrosoft
OfficeDev/microsoft-teams-library-js
Oct 2016 - Jun 2017
JavaScript library for use by Microsoft Teams apps
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 29 commits, 35 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:David primarily focused on the development and maintenance of the JavaScript library for Microsoft Teams apps. They implemented features such as `shareDeepLink` and the initialization process, including the handling of versioning. They also contributed to the test suite by adding test cases, updating existing ones and fixing errors in the existing tests. The user also worked on generating documentation by using json schema to markdown.
javascriptmicrosoft-teams
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