Rex Jaeschke
Consultant at Microsoft Corp.
Purcellville, Virginia, United States
Summary
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SeniorRex Jaeschke is a veteran consultant, standards editor, and seminar leader with over three decades of experience shaping programming languages, tooling, and documentation. He has chaired ISO/IEC programming-language standards, edited multiple Ecma and ISO standards (including Office Open XML), and taught C-family and legacy environments to industry and academic audiences. At Microsoft since 1999 and formerly a technical writer at Facebook, he blends deep hands-on knowledge of C/C++/C#/CLI and systems environments with clear technical communication. An active contributor to OSS documentation—adding practical async and database examples to the HHVM user docs—he uniquely straddles standards authorship, developer education, and real-world code examples. Based in Purcellville, VA, he brings rare institutional memory of language evolution paired with ongoing contributions to contemporary developer tooling.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (4)
asynchronous10
async10
hacking10
mysql7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
hhvm/user-documentation
Oct 2018 - Nov 2018
Documentation for those that use HHVM and write Hack code.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
Contributions summary:Rex primarily contributed to the HHVM user documentation repository, focusing on examples related to asynchronous operations, Hack language features, and object disposal. Their work included implementing asynchronous functions, demonstrating the usage of HH\Asio and HSL libraries, and modifying existing tutorials. The user also added examples related to data dependencies, batching, and MySQL integration.
hhvm
RexJaeschke/hello-world
Aug 2017 - Nov 2022
GitHub Tutorial
Contributions:4 PRs, 5 pushes, 5 branches in 5 years 3 months
github-tutorial
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