Jan Provaznik
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Prague, Prague, Czechia
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Top SchoolJan Provaznik is a software engineer based in Prague with nine years of experience focused on .NET developer tools and the MSBuild ecosystem at Microsoft. He moved from an exploratory WebAssembly plugin internship into a full-time role on the MSBuild team, combining compiler/build-system engineering with practical tool-building for developer workflows. His background includes cloud-focused developer tooling from an internship at DNAnexus and academic training in computer science and data science across universities in Prague and Gran Canaria. Interested in rationality and long-term human progress, he brings a thoughtful, future-oriented perspective to engineering problems and tooling design. Notably, his work blends low-level build-system expertise with modern runtimes like WebAssembly, positioning him at the intersection of developer productivity and emerging platform technology.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, A, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, A at Univerzita KarlovaData science, Data science at Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran CanariaGrammar school, Grammar school at Gymnázium, Praha 10, Voděradská 2
English, Czech, Spanish
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Github Skills (50)
cloud-computing10
microsoft10
msbuild10
windows10
linux10
dotnet10
barrage10
windows-forms10
build-engine10
sdk10
visual-studio10
wake-on-lan10
dotnet-core10
monorepo10
fsharp10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
JanProvaznik/janpro.dev
Sep 2021 - Oct 2025
Contributions:27 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 1 month
JanProvaznik/msbuild
Jun 2024 - Jul 2026
The Microsoft Build Engine (MSBuild) is the build platform for .NET and Visual Studio.
Contributions:4 reviews, 2 PRs, 402 pushes in 2 years 1 month
build-enginedotnetmsbuildvisual-studio
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