Rick Winter
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Summary
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RockstarRick Winter is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years of hands-on experience specializing in tooling and automation for developer platforms. He has practical expertise automating build and release pipelines, code signing, and dependency publishing—work demonstrated in contributions to high-profile Microsoft projects like Python Tools for Visual Studio and Node.js Tools for Visual Studio. Rick combines back-end refactoring skills with release engineering, having driven namespace restructuring, build fixes, and support for newer runtimes and integrations such as WFastCGI for Python 3.4. He brings a pragmatic, get-it-shipped approach to improving developer workflows and build reliability, often tackling the less visible but critical infrastructure that enables smooth product delivery.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (12)
powershell10
javascript10
nodejs10
wix10
visual-studio10
python10
build-automation10
msbuild9
cicd9
typescripts8
typescript8
typescript-types8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/nodejstools
Feb 2013 - Feb 2015
Node.js Tools for Visual Studio
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:161 commits in 2 years
Contributions summary:Rick primarily contributed to the Node.js Tools for Visual Studio project, making changes related to code refactoring and adding support for new features. They were involved in restructuring the project's namespace, which is indicated by commits that renamed NodeTools to NodejsTools in various files. The commits show the user also focused on fixing the project's build process and file structure.
nodejsvisual-studio
microsoft/PTVS
Feb 2013 - Aug 2015
Python Tools for Visual Studio
Role in this project:Automation Engineer
Automation EngineerContributions:59 commits in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Rick focused on automating the build and release process for Python Tools for Visual Studio. Their contributions include modifying build scripts, updating version numbers, and integrating code signing processes. They also made changes to handle the dependency indexing and publishing of signed binaries, while also adding support for features like WFastCGI for Python 3.4 and VS2015.
pythonvisual-studioptvs
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