Drew Batchelor
Senior Dev Writer at Microsoft
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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RockstarDrew Batchelor is a Senior Developer Writer at Microsoft with nine years of experience translating complex platform capabilities into clear, usable documentation for Windows developers. Based in the Greater Seattle area, he specializes in multimedia and cryptography examples for UWP—contributing practical code snippets for audio/video playback, adaptive streaming, multi-source media frames, and cryptographic operations in prominent MicrosoftDocs repos. His work blends full-stack coding chops with technical writing, ensuring sample projects compile and demonstrate real-world scenarios rather than abstract concepts. Colleagues rely on him to bridge API design and developer experience, and his hands-on updates to high-visibility MicrosoftDocs content show a commitment to keeping platform guidance accurate and developer-friendly.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (15)
uwp10
media-playback10
video-encoder10
transcoding10
transcode10
video-encoding10
csharp10
windows-runtime10
video-conversion10
cryptography10
dotnet-core10
streaming9
stream9
c-language4
cprogramming-language4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
MicrosoftDocs/winrt-api
Feb 2017 - Jul 2022
WinRT reference content for developing Microsoft Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 232 commits, 53 PRs in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Drew's primary contribution involved modifying and updating code snippets related to cryptographic functionalities within the WinRT API reference content. Their work appears to focus on ensuring the accuracy and completeness of code examples demonstrating various cryptographic operations, like data encoding/decoding, byte array manipulation, and random data generation. The commits mainly touch C# code, potentially to improve the usability and understanding of the UWP (Universal Windows Platform) development.
dotnetuwpdevelopingwindowsuwp-apps
MicrosoftDocs/windows-dev-docs
Feb 2017 - Dec 2022
Conceptual and overview content for developing Windows apps
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 reviews, 464 commits, 46 PRs in 5 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Drew primarily contributed to the Windows app development documentation repository by updating code snippets and examples. The changes focused on providing content for audio and video camera features, including playback, media control, and transcoding functionalities. The user updated existing projects, added new snippets for adaptive streaming, and included code relating to multi-source media frame readers. These changes show an understanding of UWP app development for audio and video features.
uwpmdtdevelopingwindowsuwp-apps
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