Ken Dale
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
United States
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Top SchoolKen Dale is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft with 13 years of professional experience building and modernizing backend systems, cloud infrastructure, and developer-facing tooling. He has driven production launches and cross-service orchestration at Microsoft Learn, led cost-saving cloud optimizations, and earned recognition for critical migration work on azure.com. Prior to Microsoft he modernized legacy .NET applications to ASP.NET Core, implemented IaC for high-availability deployments, and contributed to internal authentication and feature-flagging systems. An active contributor to the high-profile dotnet/runtime repo, his open-source work focuses on documentation clarity and pragmatic code modernization. Known for blending hands-on engineering with operational rigor, he also shares technical insights through talks and long-form team blogging.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Information Sciences and Technology, BS, Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State University
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Github Skills (19)
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csharp10
documentation10
javascript9
rxjs9
knockoutjs9
angular9
xml9
software-design7
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Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
dotnet/runtime
Sep 2022 - Sep 2022
.NET is a cross-platform runtime for cloud, mobile, desktop, and IoT apps.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 commit, 4 PRs, 4 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Ken primarily contributed to documentation improvements and code modernization within the .NET runtime repository. Their commits addressed documentation errors by updating or correcting documentation. The user also refactored code to enhance clarity and maintainability, such as modifying XML documentation comments and updating URLs to reflect changes in documentation resources. The user updated code to implement zero-based indexing within specific classes.
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kendaleiv/chocolatey-slack
Mar 2015 - Jan 2021
Contributions:5 PRs, 21 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 11 months
slackwindowschocolatey
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