Maor Leger
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Kirkland, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolMaor Leger is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building reliable, developer-friendly cloud and web systems, currently at Microsoft in Kirkland, WA. He has led client library development and tracing infrastructure for the Azure SDK for JavaScript, optimizing performance and shaving bundle size while improving distributed tracing ergonomics. Previously he combined hands-on engineering and people management at Square, and delivered high-impact payments and disputes features at Braintree using React, Rails, GraphQL and AWS. Maor has a strong background in end-to-end product delivery, from backend AMQP/HTTP debugging in a widely used open-source SDK to designing user-facing Ops tooling. He pairs an MS in Computer Science from NYU with a pragmatic, test-driven approach cultivated across startups and large teams. Outside of day-to-day engineering he runs technical forums—weekly TypeScript meetings and a JavaScript book club—showing a knack for mentoring and cross-team collaboration.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BA Economics, BA Economics at Baruch CollegeMS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at New York University
Russian, Hebrew
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Github Skills (18)
debugging10
debug10
javascript10
amqp10
eslint9
http9
typescripts8
typescript-types8
typescript8
coding-style6
null-coalescing-operator6
trigger6
dictionary6
asp-net-mvc6
jquery6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-sdk-for-js
Nov 2020 - May 2022
This repository is for active development of the Azure SDK for JavaScript (NodeJS & Browser). For consumers of the SDK we recommend visiting our public developer docs at https://docs.microsoft.com/javascript/azure/ or our versioned developer docs at https://azure.github.io/azure-sdk-for-js.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1622 reviews, 244 commits, 986 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Maor's commits focused on debugging and improving the performance of AMQP-related core functionality within the Azure SDK for JavaScript. The commits addressed debug log output errors, optimizing the display of retry attempts, and included updates to enable and fix errors related to the "no-prototype-builtins" ESLint rule. This involved modifications to key core AMQP and HTTP files and changes to improve code quality and compliance.
versionedbrowserjavascriptsdkconsumers
maorleger/dotfiles
Dec 2019 - Mar 2024
A set of vim, zsh, git, and tmux configuration files.
Contributions:66 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 2 months
vimtmuxtmux-configurationconfiguration-filesneovim
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