Louis-philippe Bourret
Principal Software Developer at Microsoft
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolLouis-Philippe Bourret is a Principal Software Developer with 15 years of experience designing and shipping Windows camera pipeline features, from public APIs to drivers, computational photography, and AI-driven CV algorithms. Based in Montreal, he has progressed through multiple senior roles at Microsoft where he now leads camera platform architecture and tooling that power imaging on Windows 10/11. His academic background in software engineering and graduate research in computer vision and motion tracking informs a focus on feature recognition and natural interaction modalities, with ties to the video game, VR and CGI worlds. An active contributor to the Windows Community Toolkit, he improved camera helpers and async frame-format handling to make camera integration more robust for .NET/UWP developers. Known for keeping multiple side projects and a daily commitment to sharpening his programming craft, he blends deep technical leadership with hands-on engineering and standards-level image quality expertise.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
D.E.C. Nature Sciences, D.E.C. Nature Sciences at Collège André-GrassetBachelor's degree Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree Software Engineering at Université de Montréal - Ecole polytechnique de MontréalD.E.S Sciences, D.E.S Sciences at Collège Laval
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Github Skills (10)
uwp10
windows-app-sdk10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
winui9
asp-net9
net9
dotnet9
xaml8
mvvm7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
CommunityToolkit/WindowsCommunityToolkit
May 2018 - May 2018
The Windows Community Toolkit is a collection of helpers, extensions, and custom controls. It simplifies and demonstrates common developer tasks building .NET apps with UWP and the Windows App SDK / WinUI 3 for Windows 10 and Windows 11. The toolkit is part of the .NET Foundation.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 15 comments in 5 days
Contributions summary:Louis-philippe primarily contributed to the CameraHelper component within the Windows Community Toolkit. They focused on implementing and refining camera functionality, including selecting and configuring camera frame formats, handling camera initialization, and managing resources. Their contributions involved modifying existing code, addressing comments, and resolving merge conflicts to improve the component's stability and functionality for UWP applications. They also added examples of setting the format asynchronously.
mvvmwindows-sdkc-sharpcustom-controlswindows-10
LPBourret/winrt-api
Dec 2017 - Jan 2025
WinRT reference content for developing Microsoft Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps
Contributions:9 pushes in 7 years 3 months
dotnetuwpdevelopingwindowsuwp-apps
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