Margaryta Ostapchuk is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft with a decade of experience building developer-focused tools and platforms. She combines a strong academic foundation in mathematical informatics and an MBA from Rotman with hands-on engineering, having progressed through developer evangelism into core engineering roles since 2014. Her open-source contributions to the prominent microsoft/react-native-windows project show a knack for improving developer experience—streamlining CLI/project generation, removing dependencies, and refining templates across front- and back-end build processes. Based in Canada, she excels at bridging product, developer workflows, and implementation, turning complex build and deployment needs into practical, maintainable solutions. Colleagues describe her as a pragmatic problem-solver who pairs technical depth with an eye for developer ergonomics.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management
Bachelor with honours, Mathematical Informatics, Bachelor with honours, Mathematical Informatics at Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University
A framework for building native Windows apps with React.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 1 branch in 3 months
Contributions summary:Margaryta's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the command-line interface (CLI) and project generation tools for React Native Windows. They removed dependencies, refactored code, and added support for overriding properties and external dependencies, demonstrating their involvement in build processes. Their work also encompassed the modification of templates and utility scripts, indicating contributions across the front-end and back-end aspects of the project setup. These changes aimed to streamline the developer experience by improving project creation and deployment processes.
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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Margaryta Ostapchuk - Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft