Juan Herrera
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJuan Herrera is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft with eight years of experience bridging economics and computer science to build reliable, user-facing platform features. A Claremont McKenna graduate, he has progressed through multiple engineering levels at Microsoft and contributed to high-profile open-source work on .NET MAUI, improving cross-platform UI layout, spell-check, and text prediction. He combines full-stack development skills with a quantitative mindset honed through investment fund roles and teaching assistantships, enabling him to translate ambiguous product needs into measurable technical solutions. Based in Redmond, he brings a practical focus on cross-platform UX consistency and performance while grounding decisions in data-driven tradeoffs. An interesting facet of his profile is that he pairs production engineering at a major cloud company with hands-on open-source contributions that affect mobile, desktop, and tablet app behavior.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Economics, Bachelor of Arts - BA Economics at Claremont McKenna College
Spanish, English
Github Skills (20)
ios10
mobile-development10
layout10
windows10
maui10
net10
xamarin10
dotnet10
user-interface10
ui-design10
layoutmanager10
net-maui10
asp-net10
uid10
xamarin-forms10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dotnet/maui
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
.NET MAUI is the .NET Multi-platform App UI, a framework for building native device applications spanning mobile, tablet, and desktop.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:196 reviews, 2 commits, 29 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Juan contributed to the .NET MAUI project by addressing issues related to the application's user interface and internal layout management. They worked on fixing bugs related to layout behavior, particularly around maximum width and height constraints, and ensured grid cells honored those constraints. Furthermore, the user implemented and tested functionalities like spell check and text prediction within search bars and entry fields across multiple platforms (Android, iOS, and Windows). Their commits also included updates to the UI's rendering logic and addressed template and documentation issues.
app-platformmauimulti-platformiosmicrosoft
irenazra/skin_tumor_segmentation_system
Nov 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:11 commits, 7 pushes in 11 days
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