Kevin Willford
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Idaho Falls, Idaho, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Willford is a Senior Software Engineer with over 7 years of professional experience and a two-decade technical career that began in the late 1990s. Based in Idaho Falls, he currently builds backend systems at Microsoft, where he contributes to enterprise-scale tooling such as the well-known VFSForGit project, focusing on sparse file system behaviors, Git status handling, and robust test automation. His background includes leadership and management at Ancestry.com and hands-on engineering across organizations like the LDS Church and DHI Computing, giving him a strong mix of people leadership and deep implementation experience. Kevin is skilled at making complex file-system and version-control interactions reliable in production, improving error handling and edge-case behavior often overlooked in large codebases. He brings practical rigor to testing and automation, ensuring systems behave correctly across platform-specific scenarios like folder dehydration and USN journal updates. Colleagues rely on him for steady delivery on infrastructure components that enable large-scale developer workflows.
7 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Brigham Young University
Github Skills (8)
git10
gitcommand10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
test-automation10
netframework10
unit-testing9
windows8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/VFSForGit
Aug 2018 - Apr 2020
Virtual File System for Git: Enable Git at Enterprise Scale
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:1 release, 38 commits, 169 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily contributed to the GVFS project by modifying code related to sparse file systems and Git status handling. Their work involved implementing and refining sparse folder management functionalities, particularly focusing on scenarios where file modifications could impact sparse set operations. Additionally, the user updated and enhanced functional tests, ensuring the accurate behavior of the GVFS system across various conditions, including those related to folder dehydration and USN journal updates. They also made improvements to error handling and messaging within the sparse operation routines.
version-controllibgit2scalevirtual-file-systementerprise-scale
kewillford/VFSForGit
Jul 2018 - Sep 2020
Git Virtual File System: Git at Enterprise Scale
Contributions:6 PRs, 355 pushes, 226 branches in 2 years 3 months
libgit2scalevirtual-file-systementerprise-scalegit-lfs
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