Michael Bowen
Senior Escalation Engineer
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Bowen is a Senior Escalation Engineer at Microsoft with 11 years of software engineering experience building and supporting developer-facing tooling for Office Open XML and WOPI. He combines full-stack web skills (Angular, Vue, Node, .NET) with deep backend work on the Open XML SDK—adding SVG support and modern M365 features—to help customers and partners integrate rich document scenarios. Known for turning legacy apps into modern, scalable systems, he has presented at global DevDays and driven adoption of an OOXML Viewer extension used by 50K+ users. Based in Seattle, he pairs a BA in English with a Full-Stack JavaScript certificate, which informs his clear technical documentation and empathetic escalations. Notably, his contributions to a flagship Microsoft open-source repo demonstrate both platform-level impact and practical interoperability expertise.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts English, Bachelor of Arts English at University of WashingtonC# Programming Using .Net Core, C# Programming Using .Net Core at University of Washington Professional and Continuing EducationCertificate Full-Stack JavaScript, Certificate Full-Stack JavaScript at Code Fellows
English
Stackoverflow
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542kreached
63answers
27questions
css
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number-formatting
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Github Skills (19)
libreoffice10
office36510
office-js10
svg10
dotnet-core10
msoffice10
csharp10
number-formatting9
docx9
css9
ppx9
html6
angular6
mochajs6
nodejs6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
dotnet/Open-XML-SDK
Jan 2021 - Dec 2022
Open XML SDK by Microsoft
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 releases, 155 reviews, 22 commits in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Michael contributed to the Open XML SDK by adding support for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) to the `ImagePartType` enumeration and related code, enabling the handling of SVG images within Open XML documents. They integrated sample code for features such as animated 3D models, document tasks, and SVG, which added new functionality for presentations. Moreover, the user addressed M365 updates by incorporating new features, including updates to comments and rich data handling, enhancing the SDK's compatibility with the latest Office features.
xmldocxsdkpptxopen-xml-sdk
mikeebowen/ooxml-viewer-vscode
Aug 2020 - Dec 2024
An OOXML Viewer for Visual Studio Code
Contributions:4 PRs, 124 pushes, 27 branches in 4 years 4 months
ooxml-viewervisual-studio-codeooxmlvscodevscode-extension
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