Michael Pateras is a senior developer with eight years of professional experience and a five-year focus on single-page applications, adept at taking full-stack projects from concept to production. He has strong leadership and communication skills and a track record across startups and enterprises including Microsoft and Inkarnate, blending modern JavaScript frameworks, .NET backend work, and VR development in Unity. Michael’s open-source contributions to the widely used Azure SDK for .NET show his attention to test robustness and dependency hygiene, not just feature work. He has built complex authoring tools, AI-driven voice interactions, and high-download mobile games, demonstrating both product-minded engineering and low-level systems competence. Based in Cincinnati, he’s known for being easy to work with and relentlessly curious, often surfacing pragmatic fixes that prevent flaky integrations before they reach production.
8 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
North Royalton High School
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at University of Dayton
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Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Contributions:42 reviews, 44 commits, 46 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the `azure-sdk-for-net` repository by fixing integration tests and removing dependencies. They addressed flaky tests and issues related to assembly targeting. The contributions include removing references to `WindowsAzure.Storage` and fixing test failures within the batch SDK. They also implemented changes in multiple integration tests, which demonstrates their focus on ensuring the robustness and stability of the SDK.
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