Mustafa Zengin
Member Of Technical Staff at Microsoft
Greater Seattle Area United States
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Top SchoolMustafa Zengin is a seasoned software engineer with 15 years of experience building backend systems, developer tooling, and release infrastructure at Microsoft, currently contributing to the Copilot platform. He has deep .NET and DevOps expertise, evidenced by substantive contributions to high-profile open source projects such as Microsoft Semantic Kernel (enhancing OpenAPI plugin support) and the Microsoft Graph .NET SDK (improving build/release/versioning). Mustafa’s background spans OS-level update/licensing components, large-scale web services, and research in parallel computing and fault tolerance, giving him a strong systems-oriented perspective. He combines hands-on coding with release management discipline, often tackling serialization, multi-account integrations, and complex dependency scenarios. Based in the Greater Seattle Area, he pairs academic rigor from Max Planck and Bilkent with pragmatic production experience at scale. A detail-oriented problem solver, he frequently works on the less visible but critical plumbing that keeps developer platforms reliable and extensible.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma Physical Sciences, High School Diploma Physical Sciences at Tokat Fen LisesiMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science at Max Planck Institute for Software SystemsBSc. Computer Engineering, BSc. Computer Engineering at Bilkent University
English, German, Turkish, Arabic
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Github Skills (36)
nuget10
github-ci10
apidoc10
net10
dotnet10
asp-net10
release-management10
api10
sdk10
build-automation10
dotnet-core10
powershell10
versioning10
githubaction-workflow10
csharp10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-dotnet
May 2020 - Dec 2021
Microsoft Graph Client Library for .NET!
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Release Manager
DevOps Engineer & Release ManagerContributions:60 reviews, 39 commits, 48 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Mustafa's contributions primarily focused on improving build processes, version management, and release procedures for the .NET client library. Their work included fixing a PowerShell script to correctly update the version, adding functionality to include symbols, and updating the NuGet package versioning script. They also bumped the version number multiple times and corrected a versioning issue, indicating involvement in release management and ensuring package distribution.
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microsoft/semantic-kernel
Sep 2023 - Nov 2024
Integrate cutting-edge LLM technology quickly and easily into your apps
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 reviews, 9 PRs, 27 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Mustafa primarily contributed to the .NET-based backend of the Semantic Kernel, focusing on enhancing and extending its OpenAPI plugin functionality. They worked on creating and integrating API manifest plugins, including setting up the necessary projects and configurations. Their work included adding support for different account types in the Microsoft Graph connector and improving the serialization depth for JSON schemas. The user also introduced features that allow multiple API dependencies.
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