Kraig Brockschmidt
Nevada City, California, United States
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Top SchoolKraig Brockschmidt is a seasoned technical communicator and former Microsoft senior content developer with over three decades of engineering and developer-relations experience and 11 years focused on developer content and documentation. He authored developer-focused content across Azure, VS Code, Python and JavaScript, and has deep roots in Windows-era technologies—having written influential books and specifications on OLE/COM and Windows app development. Practically minded, he has contributed full-stack and DevOps improvements to high-profile Microsoft tutorial repos (Flask and Django samples) that helped streamline deployment on Azure App Service. Now pursuing creative writing in literature and poetry, he combines a technical precision with storytelling instincts learned from decades of translating complex systems for engineers. Based in Nevada City, CA, he also has a track record of tooling and productivity experiments (such as documentation automation and screenshot tooling) that reveal a hands-on drive to improve authoring workflows.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Engineering at University of Washington
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Github Skills (23)
web-application10
python10
django10
css10
configuration-management10
html-template10
python-templates10
flask-ask10
code-templates10
azure-app-service10
apptemplates10
webapp10
html10
web-development10
cpp-templates10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/python-sample-vscode-django-tutorial
Sep 2018 - Sep 2019
Sample code for the Django tutorial in the VS Code documentation
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:44 commits, 13 PRs, 30 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Kraig primarily contributed to the development of a Django-based web application. Their work involved setting up the project structure, implementing core features like views, templates, and URLs, and integrating basic functionalities. The user also focused on styling the application with CSS, managing static files, and configuring settings for deployment, including Azure App Service. Overall, their contributions encompass both backend and frontend aspects of the project.
pythondjangovscodevscode-extensionvs-code
microsoft/python-sample-vscode-flask-tutorial
Jul 2018 - Nov 2020
Sample code for the Flask tutorial in the VS Code documentation
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:38 commits, 23 PRs, 30 pushes in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Kraig primarily contributed to the Flask application by correcting indentation, updating code, refactoring, and renaming folders to match the tutorial. They added functionality, modified views, templates, and configurations. Furthermore, they integrated the application with App Service on Linux and tweaked routing configurations for improved user experience.
pythonvscodeflaskvs-codecode-documentation
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