Medeni Baykal
Managing Director at Dice & Dose
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolMedeni Baykal is a seasoned engineering leader and managing director with over a decade of hands-on software engineering experience, now leading Dice & Dose after managing engineering teams at ANZ. He brings deep expertise in C#, SQL and test automation, having contributed meaningful fixes to Microsoft’s popular VSTest and TestFX projects to improve test reliability and TRX reporting. His background spans Microsoft, Avanade and enterprise banking, blending backend development, QA automation and platform design to deliver secure, user-focused solutions at scale. Medeni is passionate about mentoring teams and sharing best practices, and his career shows a pattern of moving from individual contributor roles into effective technical leadership.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering at Istanbul UniversityElectronics Engineering, Electronics Engineering at Uludag University
English, Turkish
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Github contributions (5)
microsoft/testfx
Nov 2020 - Sep 2022
This repository holds the source code of Microsoft.Testing.Platform (MTP), a lightweight alternative to VSTest, as well as MSTest adapter and framework.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:12 releases, 297 reviews, 71 commits in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Medeni made several commits focused on maintaining and improving the test suite for the Microsoft.Testing.Platform project. Their contributions include replacing deprecated certificates, adding nullable annotations to assertions, and refactoring test-related attributes. They also addressed issues with data serialization within the test framework and made adjustments to the test execution, demonstrating a clear focus on test reliability and efficiency.
mstest-frameworkdotnetmstestv2test-frameworktest-runner
microsoft/vstest
Aug 2020 - Sep 2022
Visual Studio Test Platform is the runner and engine that powers test explorer and vstest.console.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:13 releases, 455 reviews, 108 commits in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Medeni primarily focused on fixing issues and improving the robustness of the TRX (Test Results XML) logger within the Visual Studio Test Platform. Their contributions included fixing file overwrites, refactoring tests, and adding clarity to existing tests. Furthermore, they made significant modifications to the TRX file structure and file naming, which are important for test result organization. These changes are crucial to ensure the reliability and accuracy of test reporting within the Visual Studio ecosystem.
visual-studiodotnetconsoletest-platformtesting
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