Rami Sayar is a Principal Software Engineer and manager at Microsoft with 14 years of experience building and shipping cross-platform developer tooling. Based in Seattle, he combines hands-on full-stack engineering with leadership responsibilities, driving quality and CI improvements for large open-source projects. His notable open-source work includes substantive contributions to the widely used react-native-windows project—fixing install and CLI issues, improving CI for VS2017, and enhancing npm and registry handling. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic fixes that improve developer workflows and platform interoperability. He blends practical problem-solving with an eye for developer experience, often tackling platform-specific edge cases that others miss.
A framework for building native Windows apps with React.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:21 commits, 22 PRs, 4 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Rami primarily contributed to the `react-native-windows` project by addressing a variety of issues. They fixed installation problems related to yarn, corrected platform-specific certificate generation, and implemented improvements related to npm configuration for private registries. Additionally, they added a --verbose option to the CLI and updated the CI configuration for improved testing, including support for VS2017. Further contributions involved renaming a core module and correcting various minor issues related to CLI usage and code styling.
Contributions:27 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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Rami Sayar - Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft