Mica Andini is a software engineer based in Buenos Aires with nine years of experience building backend and full-stack solutions, currently leading development at GRID e-sports. A Python enthusiast and bot specialist, Mica has made notable open-source contributions to Microsoft's Bot Framework and Recognizers.Text projects, improving bot-emulator UI, token management, conversation handling for Teams, and language recognition features. Their work spans UI, core SDK changes, and automation—reflecting comfort across the stack and in production integrations with large ecosystems. Mica's contributions include pragmatic enhancements such as tenant-aware conversation creation and token-status APIs, showing attention to real-world platform requirements. Colleagues describe them as a hands-on engineer who blends thoughtful API design with practical test and build automation.
Microsoft.Recognizers.Text provides recognition and resolution of numbers, units, date/time, etc. in multiple languages (ZH, EN, FR, ES, PT, DE, IT, TR, HI, NL. Partial support for JA, KO, AR, SV). Packages available at: https://www.nuget.org/profiles/Recognizers.Text, https://www.npmjs.com/~recognizers.text
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Contributions:33 commits, 42 PRs, 24 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Mica contributed to the Python implementation of the `recognizers-text` library, adding new features for choice recognition and text processing methods. They also focused on enhancing the build and test processes by modifying scripts for .NET and Python, as well as integrating pre-commit hooks. Furthermore, the user worked on migrating and implementing Timex expressions, including base classes, tests, and the English language implementation.
Welcome to the Bot Framework SDK for .NET repository, which is the home for the libraries and packages that enable developers to build sophisticated bot applications using .NET.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:37 commits, 11 PRs, 3 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Mica primarily contributed to the bot framework's .NET SDK, focusing on conversation management. They added and refactored an overload for `CreateConversationAsync` to handle Teams-specific requirements, including the inclusion of the tenant ID. Further, they adjusted the schema for `ConversationReference` to include the tenant ID, and adapted the code to accommodate service modifications. Their changes involved modifying core adapter methods, and adjusting parameters to correctly create conversations within the Microsoft Teams environment.
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