Michelle Mains
Senior Paralegal - Open Innovation Counseling
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichelle Mains is a Senior Paralegal with eight years at Microsoft and a total career rooted in intellectual property, content licensing, and product development across technology and entertainment. She combines sharp transactional drafting and negotiation skills with process design—translating complex legal principles into practical checklists, self-help resources, and trainings that empower product teams. At Microsoft she manages copyright compliance and AI-related data use matters, leads knowledge management initiatives, and scouts opportunities to leverage AI and tooling to streamline legal workflows. Previously she ran IP and content compliance programs for Starz, and she mentors colleagues on both legal nuance and the softer skills of getting things done in large organizations. Less obvious is her hands-on technical contribution in open-source Microsoft repos—improving C/C++ tooling and CMake integration for VS Code—which complements her work with developer teams and informs pragmatic, tech-aware legal counseling.
8 years of coding experience
B.S., Finance, B.S., Finance at Arizona State UniversityUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (17)
visual-studio-code10
debugging10
debug10
c-language10
microsoft10
typescript10
cmake10
c1110
vscode-extension10
intellisense10
c1710
typescript-types10
typescripts10
cpp10
cprogramming-language10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/vscode-cpptools
Dec 2018 - Jan 2023
Official repository for the Microsoft C/C++ extension for VS Code.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:17 releases, 781 reviews, 155 commits in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Michelle's contributions focused on adding and modifying settings related to cached pre-compiled headers within the Microsoft C/C++ extension for VS Code. Their work included fixing auto pch settings, filtering the autoPCH cache for telemetry, adding settings for cached pre-compiled headers, renaming cache-related settings, and merging branch updates. These changes involved modifications to the client and settings files, indicating a focus on enhancing the extension's performance and functionality.
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microsoft/vscode-cmake-tools
Sep 2019 - Oct 2022
CMake Tools provides a robust, convenient workflow for CMake projects in VS Code. It simplifies configurations with CMake presets, supports IntelliSense and built-in debugging for CMake scripts, and offers configurable tasks. Its customizable interface allows for efficient project control, while also simplifying test execution and monitoring.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 reviews, 8 commits, 12 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Michelle primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the CMake Tools extension for VS Code. Their contributions included modifying the codebase to support different architectures and compiler standards, specifically focusing on ARM and GNU versions. They also addressed parsing of compiler flags to correctly identify target architectures and IntelliSense modes. Furthermore, the user integrated changes to ensure compatibility with updated CppTools APIs.
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