Garrett Campbell
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Waynesboro, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolGarrett Campbell is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft with four years of hands-on experience building cross-platform developer tools for Visual Studio and VS Code. He blends full-stack development with low-level embedded and microcontroller programming—a versatility reflected in his contributions to the popular microsoft/vscode-arduino extension where he improved serial monitor performance and resource management. A Virginia Tech Computer Engineering graduate (3.82 GPA) who’s comfortable across CMake, Makefiles, Linux, and tooling, Garrett thrives on learning new layers of the stack and shipping reliable, low-latency features. He brings practical experience from internships in defense simulation and hardware-focused engineering, and holds an active Secret clearance from earlier work.
4 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Degree, General, 4.4, Advanced Degree, General, 4.4 at Stuarts Draft High SchoolComputer Engineering, 3.82, Computer Engineering, 3.82 at Virginia TechSTEM, 4.4, STEM, 4.4 at Shenandoah Valley Governor's School
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Github Skills (10)
debugging10
debug10
typescript10
typescripts10
serial-communication10
vscode-extension10
typescript-types10
performance-optimization9
javascript9
arduino8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/vscode-arduino
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
Visual Studio Code extension for Arduino
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:64 reviews, 32 commits, 48 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Garrett primarily focused on enhancing the serial monitor functionality of the Arduino extension. Their work involved implementing buffering to prevent performance issues, adding timing mechanisms to reduce latency, and refactoring the serial monitor implementation. They also addressed linting errors and added dispose calls for resource management, further improving the stability and reliability of the extension.
visual-studio-codevscodevscode-extensionvisual-studio-code-extensionarduino
gcampbell-msft/fixed-pending-release
Sep 2023 - Jul 2024
Closes issues marked with "fixed-pending-release" tag upon a new release.
Contributions:11 releases, 2 reviews, 2 PRs in 10 months
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