Eric Ahn
Senior Software Development Engineer at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Ahn is a Senior Software Development Engineer with 13 years of experience building reliable systems across large cloud and platform teams at Microsoft and AWS. He blends deep engineering craft with pragmatic full-stack skills, having shipped production services at scale and contributed to cross-version compatibility in notable open-source projects like the Ren'Py visual novel engine. Based in Seattle, he moves comfortably between day-job enterprise work and playful, cross-disciplinary side projects that keep his tooling and language skills sharp. Eric’s background as a CS honors course assistant and long tenure at Microsoft reflect a strong foundation in teaching, code quality, and maintainability. He brings a practical focus on compatibility, build processes, and developer ergonomics to complex engineering challenges.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Crescenta Valley High SchoolBachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (7)
renpy10
python10
game-engine9
visual9
engine9
build-process8
file-handling8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
renpy/renpy
Oct 2018 - Oct 2019
The Ren'Py Visual Novel Engine
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 6 PRs, 4 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily focused on making the Ren'Py Visual Novel Engine compatible with both Python 2 and Python 3. Their work involved modifying existing Python code to ensure print statements and integer division behaved consistently across both Python versions. They also addressed various code files, including those related to file handling, and build processes, to ensure they are compatible with both Python versions, and made changes to ensure correct functionality across all supported versions.
pythongamevisual-novelvisualrenpy
tehp/OpenPoGoBot
Jul 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:56 commits, 99 PRs, 213 pushes in 1 month
pythonpokemongobotpython3python-bot
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