Kevin Halverson
Principal Software Engineer - Office 365 For Education
Kirkland, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolKevin Halverson is a Principal Software Engineer with 12+ years at Microsoft, currently leading engineering efforts for Office 365 for Education from Kirkland, Washington. He has deep experience across developer tools and productivity products, having contributed to Visual Studio debugger internals, C# interactive, and Live Unit Testing before moving into education-focused cloud services. Kevin’s background blends hands-on compiler and IDE testing expertise—where he led teams and test strategy for .NET compilers—with senior engineering and architectural responsibilities. He’s strong at shipping reliable, scalable features for large codebases and coordinating cross-team efforts, including managing offshore testing vendors early in his career. Known for pragmatic problem solving, he brings both low-level systems knowledge and product-minded engineering to complex platform challenges. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Montana State University and persists in bridging tooling depth with cloud service delivery.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Montana State University-Bozeman
Github Skills (70)
nuget10
testing10
windows10
asp-net-core10
asp-net10
csproj10
code-analysis10
visual-studio10
runner10
roslyn10
test-explorer10
linux10
dotnet10
dotnet-test10
visual-studio-extension10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
KevinH-MS/roslyn
Feb 2015 - Feb 2018
Contributions:499 pushes, 159 branches, 28 comments in 3 years
roslyncompilersdotnetcompilervisual-basic
KevinH-MS/xunit
Jul 2015 - Apr 2018
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch, 11 comments in 2 years 9 months
dotnettestingnet-frameworkunitfocused
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