Phillip Hoff
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarPhillip Hoff is a Seattle-based software engineer with 11 years of experience building developer tools and cloud-native workflows, currently contributing to Microsoft’s Dapr product team. He combines back-end, DevOps, and full-stack skills to improve tooling for containers, microservices, and serverless development—work reflected in notable open-source contributions to projects like vscode-docker, tye, and dapr/cli. Phillip has shipped .NET Core debugging in container workflows, enhanced local microservice orchestration and observability in Tye, and added Dapr integrations across multi-language samples and dev container templates. Comfortable across language boundaries, he has implemented Python function support, Node.js/.NET test projects, and CLI features that simplify runtime configuration in Docker networks. Colleagues rely on him for practical improvements that surface in developer UX and deployment reliability rather than flashy headlines. He pairs a pragmatic engineering mindset with an eye for making complex distributed systems easier to develop and debug.
11 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (53)
kubernetes10
docker10
python10
apidoc10
net10
command-line-interface10
microservices-application10
dotnet10
docker-compose10
asp-net-core10
microsoft-azure10
dockers10
asp-net10
dapr10
go10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
dotnet/tye
May 2021 - Dec 2022
Tye is a tool that makes developing, testing, and deploying microservices and distributed applications easier. Project Tye includes a local orchestrator to make developing microservices easier and the ability to deploy microservices to Kubernetes with minimal configuration.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 65 reviews, 46 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Phillip primarily contributed to the development of the Tye dashboard and control plane features. Their work included adding API endpoints for application metadata, service shutdown, and Dapr integration. They also implemented functionality for tracking and reporting service sources, and refactored code to support .NET 6. The contributions centered on enhancing the application's management and observability capabilities.
deployingdevelopingdistributed-applicationsorchestratortesting
microsoft/vscode-docker
Oct 2018 - Jun 2021
Docker Extension for Visual Studio Code
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:128 reviews, 53 commits, 110 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Phillip primarily contributed to the development and enhancement of the Docker extension for Visual Studio Code, focusing on .NET Core debugging within Docker containers. Their work included adding .NET Core debugging support, refining build and run configurations, and incorporating features like Alpine image support and network options. Furthermore, the user implemented enhancements to the Docker build and run tasks, including environment file support and volume path resolution.
dockerfilevisual-studio-codevscodevscode-extensiondocker
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