Paul Batum
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Bellevue, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolPaul Batum is a Principal Software Engineer with 17 years of experience driving backend and cloud runtime improvements at Microsoft, based in Bellevue, WA. He blends deep hands-on engineering with leadership, having progressed through program and engineering management into principal-level individual contribution on Azure services. Paul is an active open-source contributor to high-profile .NET projects—Fluent NHibernate, FluentMigrator, Azure WebJobs SDK, and the Azure Functions host—where he’s fixed memory leaks, race conditions, migration behaviors, and improved collection and mapping implementations. His work often focuses on reliability, performance, and database/schema tooling, revealing a practical emphasis on production-grade, maintainable systems. Colleagues rely on him for subtle fixes that prevent flaky tests and scale issues, a pattern that hints at strong system-level intuition beyond feature delivery. He holds a software engineering degree from the University of Canberra and prefers working quietly but impactfully on core platform challenges.
17 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BESE, Software Engineering, BESE, Software Engineering at University of Canberra
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Github Skills (42)
unit-testing10
testing10
net10
azure-webjobs-sdk10
databases10
azure-functions10
dotnet10
migration10
netframework10
asp-net10
sql10
dotnet-core10
database-schema10
fluentmigrator10
test-integration10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
nhibernate/fluent-nhibernate
Jul 2008 - Oct 2010
Fluent NHibernate!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:205 commits in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Paul contributed to the implementation of different collection types (Bag, List, and Set) within the Fluent NHibernate framework. Their work included supporting index properties for lists and removing redundant using statements. They also made changes to the mapping of one-to-many relationships and component mappings.
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Azure/azure-webjobs-sdk
Nov 2017 - Jan 2022
Azure WebJobs SDK
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 reviews, 26 commits, 37 PRs in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily focused on bug fixes and code improvements within the Azure WebJobs SDK. Their contributions included fixing cancellation token handling in EventHubs processing, addressing memory leaks, and improving error message clarity within the logging system. The user also made code changes related to concurrency issues and added issue links for better tracking. Additionally, they updated the codebase to use the latest storage SDK version.
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