Erik Salazar
Senior Software Engineer at Universidad de Costa Rica UCR
San José, Costa Rica
Summary
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Top SchoolErik Salazar is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft with seven years of experience specializing in distributed systems, databases, security, and cloud computing, primarily contributing to Azure Cosmos DB. He designs, implements, tests, and ships scalable NoSQL database features while advancing through roles from Software Engineer to Senior Software Engineer. Based in San José, Costa Rica, he combines industry practice with academia as an adjunct professor and associate researcher at Universidad de Costa Rica, where he teaches programming and works on software metrics and visualizations. Erik is completing an MS in Computer Science, and his background as a teaching assistant across AI and software engineering courses gives him a strong foundation in both theory and practical mentorship. Notably, he balances production-grade cloud engineering with ongoing research, bridging operational excellence and empirical software study.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Universidad de Costa Rica UCR
Github Skills (42)
microsoft10
command-line-interface10
dotnet10
swagger10
microsoft-azure10
azure-cli10
api10
sdk10
rest10
azure10
rest-api10
openapi10
cli10
azure-sdk9
azure-cosmos-db9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ekuhlmann23/ekuhlmann23.github.io
Aug 2020 - Feb 2021
Contributions:38 pushes in 5 months
ekuhlmann23/azure-rest-api-specs
May 2022 - Aug 2022
The source for REST API specifications for Microsoft Azure.
Contributions:11 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
apispecificationsrestmicrosoft-azuremicrosoft
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