Felipe Aceves
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFelipe Aceves is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience, currently building software at Microsoft from Redmond after a multi-year stint as a Linux desktop developer for elementary OS. He blends front-end UI craftsmanship—demonstrated by focused contributions to elementary/code improving DocumentView and SplitView—with production-grade engineering at a major cloud and platform company. Comfortable across Linux desktop stacks and large-scale Microsoft systems, he has moved between roles from intern to senior engineer, showing steady growth and adaptability. Felipe’s work often targets subtle UX and component-architecture improvements (popover positioning, signal/property refactors) that make developer tools feel polished and reliable. Trained in systems engineering at ITESO, he brings both low-level desktop sensibilities and enterprise-scale practices to cross-disciplinary teams.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Colegio Cervantes Costa RicaColleyville Heritage High SchoolEngineer's Degree, Systems Engineering, Engineer's Degree, Systems Engineering at ITESO Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara
Github Skills (3)
gtk10
ui-design10
vala10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
elementary/code
Jun 2017 - Nov 2017
Code editor designed for elementary OS
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 22 PRs, 30 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Felipe primarily focused on refining the user interface of the code editor. They made several commits that refactored code related to `DocumentView` and `SplitView`, improving the overall structure and organization of the UI components. The commits involved adding namespaces, and modifying signals and properties. Additionally, the user addressed UI-related issues like popover positioning within the format bar and corrected document-related behaviors.
gtk3code-editorelementary-oselementarypantheon
Philip-Scott/misc
Sep 2016 - Mar 2019
Contributions:47 commits, 32 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 6 months
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