Marion Zepf
Software Developer II at Microsoft
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolMarion Zepf is a software developer with 13 years of experience, currently at Microsoft where she transitioned from NLP research into DevOps and now aims to pivot into engineering-focused roles. She excels at building modular, well-tested backend systems and has contributed to notable open-source work such as the microsoft/botframework-solutions repository, improving conversational flows and backend logic for the Automotive skill. Her background in computational linguistics and dialogue management gives her a rare strength in end-to-end integration: she designs features with system-wide interactions and quickly traces buggy components to recreate inputs and add targeted tests. Marion is passionate about automated testing and developer ergonomics, often building tooling and frameworks to make testing faster and more reliable. Based in Montreal, she combines rigorous academic training (top-ranked degree in Computational Linguistics) with production experience shipping maintainable, extensible software at scale.
12 years of coding experience
Databases by Professor Jennifer Widom from Stanford University, Databases by Professor Jennifer Widom from Stanford University at CourseraBachelor's Degree, Computational Linguistics, 1.0 (= GPA 4.0), Bachelor's Degree, Computational Linguistics, 1.0 (= GPA 4.0) at Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen
English, German, Latin, Greek, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (21)
conversation10
dialog10
dotnet-core10
lingui10
azure-bot-service10
bot-framework10
csharp10
dialogs10
conversations10
yaml8
unit-testing8
powershell7
pip6
nlp6
logging6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/botframework-solutions
Jan 2019 - Sep 2019
Welcome to the Bot Framework Solutions repository which is the home for a set of templates and solutions to help build advanced conversational experiences using Azure Bot Service and Bot Framework. Microsoft Bot Framework is a comprehensive framework for building enterprise-grade conversational AI experiences.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 18 PRs, 187 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Marion's commits primarily focused on the development and improvement of the Automotive skill within the Bot Framework Solutions repository. They worked on modifying and extending existing dialogs, specifically within the Vehicle Settings functionality, by adding features like improved setting name and value selection, and enhanced conversational flow. The user also made changes to testing and deployment scripts. These modifications suggest a focus on back-end logic and conversational user experience improvements.
alexa-skills-kitazure-bot-servicevirtualassistantconversational-experiencesbot
outofthecave/Geburtstagskalender
Sep 2018 - Oct 2020
Simple Android app for a birthday calendar in German
Contributions:10 PRs, 28 pushes, 10 branches in 2 years 1 month
android-appcalendarandroid
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