Dayton Ellwanger
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDayton Ellwanger is a Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft with 11 years of experience, currently focused on developer tooling including Microsoft Dev Box and Visual Studio Live Share. He brings a rigorous, interdisciplinary foundation from UNC Chapel Hill in computer science, physics, and mathematics to architect resilient, collaborative developer experiences. Known for prioritizing human connections in product design, he blends deep technical leadership with a pragmatic, user-centered approach to complex systems. Based in Redmond, he excels at turning distributed collaboration challenges into seamless workflows for engineering teams. An unexpected strength is his knack for translating low-level systems thinking into approachable developer features that improve everyday productivity.
11 years of coding experience
High School, High School at North Carolina School of Science and MathematicsBachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Spanish
Github Skills (50)
colorize10
visual-studio-code10
socket-io10
pylint10
javascript10
roslyn10
electron10
microsoft10
autocomplete10
python-extension10
typescript10
pair-programming10
dotnet10
intellisense10
vscode-extension10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/tas-client
Nov 2021 - May 2022
Contributions:24 reviews, 19 commits, 25 PRs in 5 months
daytonellwanger/bettersocial
Feb 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:138 commits, 1 push in 11 months
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