Noah Gilson
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Greater Seattle Area United States
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Top SchoolNoah Gilson is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of experience building developer tooling and cloud-integrated services, currently driving critical parts of the .NET and C# ecosystem at Microsoft. He architects high-scale systems—owning an API Extension service used over 100 million times monthly—and improves developer experience in VS Code, shrinking C# startup latency by a median of 874 ms and raising automated tooling setup success to over 99%. A strong backend and DevOps contributor to high-profile open-source projects like the dotnet/sdk and vscode-dotnet-runtime, he balances feature work with CI/CD automation, workload parsing fixes, and dependency synchronization. He surfaced and led remediation for a high-severity Elevation of Privilege vulnerability (credited as CVE-2025-21173), demonstrating security-first engineering at scale. Noah mentors junior engineers, consults teams on extension design patterns adopted across products, and collaborates with distributions like Canonical and Red Hat to extend .NET acquisition across Linux ecosystems.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.8/4.0, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.8/4.0 at University of MichiganComputer Science, 4.0/4.0, Computer Science, 4.0/4.0 at Washtenaw Community CollegeValedictorian, 4.0, Valedictorian, 4.0 at Morenci Area High School
Japanese, English
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Github Skills (28)
azure-devops-server10
task-management10
net-sdk10
resource-management10
cicd10
sdk10
dotnet-sdk10
azure-devops10
build-automation10
dotnet-core10
workflow-management10
csharp10
npm9
git9
bash9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
dotnet/vscode-dotnet-runtime
Jun 2022 - Nov 2022
VSCode Extension for Installing .NET via VS Code
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:5 releases, 590 reviews, 110 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Noah primarily focused on improving the CI/CD pipeline and build processes for the project. Their contributions include modifying build scripts (`build.ps1`, `build.sh`), test scripts, and dependency verifiers to enhance build automation. Several commits addressed the synchronization of dependencies and the integration of Azure DevOps for continuous integration, ensuring build and test processes run correctly.
dotnetvscodevscode-extension
dotnet/sdk
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
Core functionality needed to create .NET Core projects, that is shared between Visual Studio and CLI
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1868 reviews, 599 commits, 1030 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Noah primarily contributed to the .NET SDK, focusing on enhancements related to workload functionality. Their commits addressed feedback on pull requests by responding to code comments and making the required changes. Their work involved refining workload clean commands and fixing issues within the workload command parser, resolving null reference exceptions. They also updated dependencies from other .NET repositories.
clidotnetvisual-studiosdk
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