Grace Wilcox
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Kirkland, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGrace Wilcox is a software engineer with seven years of hands-on experience, currently contributing to Microsoft after graduating with a BS in Computer Science from the University of Florida. She specializes in backend systems and cloud-native tooling, with practical experience building serverless AWS backends, ETL pipelines, and enterprise Java Spring services. At Microsoft she works on the Azure SDK for Go, improving authentication, error handling, and Monitor Query functionality—demonstrating a focus on developer experience in a major open-source cloud project. Her internships at Citi and Procter & Gamble show strong testing discipline and automation skills, including high unit test coverage and significant test refactoring. She has taught and mentored peers in operating systems coursework, reflecting both technical depth and clear communication. Based in Kirkland, WA, she combines production-facing engineering with open-source contributions that make cloud SDKs more reliable and usable.
7 years of coding experience
Study Abroad (Summer 2019), Computer Science, Study Abroad (Summer 2019), Computer Science at UM-SJTU Joint Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.6/4.0, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.6/4.0 at University of Florida
Chinese, Spanish, English
Github Skills (9)
golang10
azure10
go10
sdk10
microsoft-azure10
rest10
azure-sdk10
error-handling9
testing8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-sdk-for-go
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
This repository is for active development of the Azure SDK for Go. For consumers of the SDK we recommend visiting our public developer docs at:
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:330 reviews, 13 commits, 321 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Grace primarily focused on enhancing the Azure SDK for Go, specifically within the `azidentity` and `azquery` packages. Their contributions included adding troubleshooting links for authentication errors, testing error messages, and implementing features related to the Monitor Query functionality. They also updated example code and refactored the error information format within the project. These changes indicate a focus on improving the SDK's usability, error handling, and expanding its feature set.
golangsdkconsumersazure-sdkrest
gracewilcox/azure-sdk-for-go
Jul 2022 - Mar 2025
This repository is for active development of the Azure SDK for Go. For consumers of the SDK we recommend visiting our public developer docs at:
Contributions:589 pushes, 272 branches in 2 years 8 months
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