Ion Todirel
Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolIon Todirel is a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft with over a decade of experience building developer tools, leading a 12-person team responsible for Embedded, Linux, Project & Build, and Cloud charters across Visual Studio and VS Code. He combines deep C and C++ expertise with a hands-on passion for native tooling, API and framework design, and end-to-end product delivery from inception to long-term support. Equally comfortable architecting code and rolling up his sleeves, he has a track record of shipping features, growing teams, and enabling developer productivity at scale. Outside software he designs precision electronics and metrology-grade hardware—bringing PCB, enclosure, and product design skills that inform a systems-level perspective on engineering. A regular attendee of SIGGRAPH, GDC and CppCon, he blends interests in real-time systems, graphics, computer vision and robotics to solve complex, performance-sensitive problems.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Information Technology, BS, Information Technology at Universitatea Tehnică a Moldovei
English, Romanian, Russian
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Github Skills (61)
vs-extension10
debugging10
json10
visual-studio-code-extension10
windows10
ctest10
linux10
dotnet10
cmake10
tasks10
intellisense10
visual-studio10
dotnet-core10
c-library10
cpp10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/VSLinux
Jul 2016 - Sep 2022
VS extension for C++ Linux development
Contributions:10 commits, 3 PRs, 8 pushes in 6 years 3 months
vs-extensionlinux-developmentcpplinuxc-plus-plus
microsoft/CMake
Oct 2016 - Oct 2016
CMake, the cross-platform, open-source build system.
Contributions:1 review, 2 commits, 3 PRs in 1 day
cppcmakeopen-platformbuild-systemcross-platform
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