Jose Maldonado
Software Engineer 2 at Microsoft
Miami, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJose Maldonado is a Software Engineer II at Microsoft with seven years’ experience building backend systems for gaming and cloud services, currently contributing to the xCloud team in Miami. He combines production engineering at scale with open-source contributions to the Azure SDK for .NET, notably enhancing Text Analytics features like healthcare support and summarization. A serial builder and founder, he co-created PilotVR—a VR/AI physical therapy prototype—and has led student innovation groups at FIU, showing a blend of product instincts and technical delivery. His background spans AR, VR, and cloud-native development, with practical experience reducing app size and improving performance in constrained environments. Jose also holds formal training in full-stack development and a Master’s in Learning Science, which informs his user-centered approach to engineering. Peers describe him as an engineer who moves fluidly between prototyping, production, and community-driven open-source work.
6 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Education - MEd, Learning Science and Human Development, Master of Education - MEd, Learning Science and Human Development at University of WashingtonFull Stack Development, Full Stack Development at IronhackBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Senior, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Senior at Florida International University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (9)
net10
asp-net10
azure10
text-analytics10
dotnet10
microsoft-azure10
csharp10
azure-sdk10
dotnet-core10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-sdk-for-net
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
This repository is for active development of the Azure SDK for .NET. For consumers of the SDK we recommend visiting our public developer docs at https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/azure/ or our versioned developer docs at https://azure.github.io/azure-sdk-for-net.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:286 reviews, 24 commits, 163 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Jose primarily contributed to the Azure SDK for .NET, focusing on the Text Analytics service. Their work involved re-enabling and testing of existing code, re-generating code based on updated API versions, and adding support for new features, like healthcare-related functionalities, extractive and abstractive summarization, and script detection. These changes likely involved updating models and API calls to ensure compatibility with the latest service versions and improving the functionalities of the Text Analytics service.
dotnetversionedazure-functionssdkconsumers
openai/openai-dotnet
Jun 2024 - Apr 2025
The official .NET library for the OpenAI API
Contributions:15 releases, 66 reviews, 128 PRs in 9 months
csharpdotnetopenai
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