Diego Villasenor
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDiego Villasenor is a Principal Software Engineer based in Redmond with a decade-plus career focused on real-time communications and cloud services, currently advancing Azure Communication Services at Microsoft. He has repeatedly driven infrastructure and client work across Skype, Teams, and Skype for Windows, blending low-level systems experience with cloud-scale service delivery. Diego progressed through roles from SDET to senior engineering leader, including a stint as Senior Staff Engineer at Outreach, demonstrating both hands-on coding and architectural leadership. His academic background in computer science from UC Riverside and UCLA underpins research-oriented problem solving, evident from early work on decision diagram libraries and geo-coded video visualization. Colleagues rely on him for solving complex distributed-systems challenges and for translating research prototypes into production-quality features. He brings a rare combination of communications protocol expertise and a track record of shipping dependable, scalable services in large engineering organizations.
2 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of California, RiversideUniversity of California, Los Angeles
English, Spanish
Github Skills (10)
azure10
sdk10
monitor9
azure-communication-services9
azure-monitor9
azure-functions8
microsoft8
microsoft-azure8
azure-monitor-workbooks6
azure-ad-b2c6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (4)
Azure/Communication
Oct 2024 - Jan 2025
Azure Communication Services - SDKs and Release Notes
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 6 pushes in 2 months
notesazure-functionsazure-communication-servicessdksrelease-notes
microsoft/Application-Insights-Workbooks
Mar 2025 - Apr 2025
Templates for Azure Monitor Workbooks
Contributions:15 reviews, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 month
application-insights-workbooksazure-monitormonitoranalysismicrosoft-azure
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