Ricard Gascons
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolRicard Gascons is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable web and mobile experiences, currently contributing to Power BI at Microsoft from Redmond. He has a strong track record modernizing large front-end platforms—at Uber he led a team to build a company-wide Incentives editor and created a composable TypeScript UI framework that boosted development velocity and is now used by 20+ apps. Previously at Microsoft he improved Office 365 signup and global payment support, expanded Office Translator integrations, and built data-driven tooling using SQL and Azure pipelines. Comfortable across the stack, Ricard combines React/TypeScript front-end expertise with ASP.NET backends and robust QA practices, evidenced by his detailed contributions to an open-source Hearthstone simulator. He excels at turning complex workflows into fast, reliable tools that measurably reduce operational friction. He trained in Computer Science at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and brings both product-minded engineering and a knack for shipping reusable developer platforms.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
UPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Spanish, Catalan, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (5)
hearthstone10
python10
implement10
logic10
testing10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jleclanche/fireplace
Jul 2015 - Aug 2015
A Hearthstone simulator in Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:12 commits, 7 PRs, 4 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Ricard primarily implemented Hearthstone card functionalities within the Python-based simulator. They focused on adding game mechanics for specific cards, including secrets like Snipe, Snake Trap, and Explosive Trap, alongside cards like Feign Death and Blackwing Corruptor. Extensive testing was also performed, as evidenced by the inclusion of comprehensive test cases for each implemented card and mechanic.
hearthstone-simulatorpythonhearthstonesimulationsimulator
Discovery-VSTS/100-point-discovery-backend
Jan 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:64 PRs, 81 pushes, 65 branches in 2 months
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