Dexter Williams
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolDexter Williams is a software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently building products at Microsoft from his base in Austin, Texas. He blends a finance background and entrepreneurial grit—having founded a party rentals business and worked as a credit analyst—with strong hands-on engineering experience across internships, junior roles, and a LEAP apprenticeship. Comfortable across the full development lifecycle, Dexter moved from ASP.NET and integration testing into scalable software engineering at a major tech company. Known on GitHub as "Coding from the Capital," he brings a practical, results-oriented approach and a knack for translating business requirements into reliable code. His path shows an uncommon mix of sales and financial analysis experience that sharpens his product judgment and stakeholder communication. Dexter pairs technical curiosity (edX computer science coursework and immersive coding bootcamp training) with a track record of shipping production software.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Baccalaureate in Business Administration, Finance, Baccalaureate in Business Administration, Finance at University of HoustonLANGHAM CREEK HIGH SCHOOLComputer Science, Computer Science at edXComputer Programming, Computer Programming at Coder Camps
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (67)
container-management10
terraform10
sdk10
golang10
azure10
agile10
terratest10
drift10
product-management10
docker10
agile-development10
app-service10
graphql10
dotnet9
microsoft-azure9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/cobalt
May 2019 - Apr 2020
Infrastructure turn-key solution for app service workloads
Contributions:14 reviews, 90 commits, 38 PRs in 11 months
golangworkloadsinfrastructureazuredevopscloudfoundry
TechnicallyWilliams/code-with-engineering-playbook
Sep 2020 - May 2023
This is the playbook for "code-with" customer or partner engagements
Contributions:13 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 8 months
partnerdockergraphqlplaybook
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