Oleg Kharitonov
Software Engineer at Independent Contractor
Kirkland, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOleg Kharitonov is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft with nearly two decades of professional experience and a deep focus on developer tools for Visual C++. He has led design and implementation of code formatting, refactorings, and multiple heuristic algorithms that boosted accuracy, performance, and responsiveness across IntelliSense, Browsing, and CodeModel components. At Microsoft he also steers the Visual Studio integration for the Azure Sphere SDK, blending low-level IDE engineering with IoT/security tooling. Earlier work at Tom Sawyer Software shows his ability to modernize systems and squeeze performance from large datasets, and he brings a strong academic foundation from UC Berkeley and a 4.0 MS in CS from UCLA. Known for improving stability and developer productivity at scale, he pairs rigorous technical craft with practical impact on developer workflows.
7 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Math (minor), BS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Math (minor) at University of California, BerkeleyUniversity of California, Los Angeles
English, Russian
Github Skills (19)
visual-studio-code10
monitoring10
debugging10
cmake-presets10
ctest10
cmake10
tasks10
vscode-extension10
intellisense10
docker-desktop10
vscode10
cpp10
microsoft9
hardware-designs9
azure-sphere9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-sphere-gallery
Jun 2023 - Jul 2024
A collection of inspirational, unmaintained Azure Sphere software and hardware designs ready to be reused.
Contributions:11 reviews, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 1 month
azure-spherehardware-designs
microsoft/vscode-cmake-tools
Nov 2019 - May 2025
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.
Contributions:4 reviews, 5 comments, 2 issues in 5 years 6 months
cmakecmake-presetsdebuggingintellisensemonitoring
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