Esteban Rey
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEsteban Rey is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft with nine years of experience building cloud-native tooling, currently focused on Azure Container Registry. A Stanford CS graduate, he has deep backend and DevOps expertise demonstrated by contributions to the widely used vscode-docker extension—improving ACR integration, networking robustness, and async request scheduling. He has moved between roles from intern to senior engineer at Microsoft, shipping features across .NET SDKs, VS Code extensions (one with millions of downloads), and deployment pipelines. Comfortable across many languages, Esteban blends performance-minded refactoring with pragmatic tooling work that reduces operational friction for developers. He also has teaching and research experience from Stanford, where he led CS discussion sections and built web interventions for behavior-change research. Known for spotting infrastructure inefficiencies, he often optimizes async flows and eliminates unnecessary dependencies to boost reliability and performance.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
High School, 4.0 GPA, High School, 4.0 GPA at The Columbus SchoolBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Stanford University
Spanish, English
Github Skills (14)
asynchronous10
azure10
typescript10
docker10
typescripts10
azure-container-registry10
microsoft-azure10
containerization10
dockers10
async10
typescript-types10
azure-acr10
cicd9
visual-studio-code-extension9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/vscode-docker
Jul 2018 - Aug 2018
Docker Extension for Visual Studio Code
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:5 commits, 14 PRs, 55 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Esteban primarily contributed to the Docker extension, focusing on Azure container registry integration and enhancements. Their work included fixing bugs related to HTTP errors and networking issues, improving the asynchronous behavior for performance boosts, and implementing features like scheduled concurrency limiting. The user also demonstrated experience in code optimization and refactoring, including removing unnecessary packages and implementing an asyncpool class for request scheduling, improving performance. They also worked on Azure App services deployment.
dockerfilevisual-studio-codevscodevscode-extensiondocker
estebanreyl/accelerated-container-image
Jan 2023 - Oct 2024
A production-ready remote container image format (overlaybd) base on block-device.
Contributions:2 PRs, 70 pushes, 15 branches in 1 year 9 months
containersblock-deviceblock-onproduction-readyremote-container
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