Saint Wesonga
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolSaint Wesonga is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of professional experience, currently building developer tooling at Microsoft from Redmond. He combines deep academic training—holding MS degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering and pursuing a PhD in Computer Science—with a pragmatic engineering career that spans hands-on roles since web design to production C#/.NET systems. At Microsoft he’s contributed to the .NET Project System for Visual Studio, shipping bug fixes and features that improve IDE behavior and developer configuration for SDK-style projects. His background includes earlier software roles and internships at Garmin and multiple stints at Microsoft, giving him a practical blend of embedded/flight-test exposure and large-scale developer platform work. Colleagues know him for quietly fixing subtle language-symbol bugs and merging cross-branch changes that keep complex codebases healthy. He brings a research-informed mindset to shipping reliable, developer-focused tooling.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Electrical Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.), Electrical Engineering at University of WashingtonDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at University of WyomingB.A., Computer Science, Mathematics, B.A., Computer Science, Mathematics at Malone UniversityMaster of Science (MS), Computer Science, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science at Brigham Young University
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Github Skills (11)
net10
asp-net10
dotnet10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
vba9
csproj9
windows6
gfortran6
cmake6
mingw6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
dotnet/project-system
Oct 2019 - Nov 2021
The .NET Project System for Visual Studio
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:254 reviews, 104 commits, 52 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Saint primarily contributed to the .NET project system by fixing bugs and merging branches. They addressed issues related to incorrect symbol removal logic within Visual Basic files and merged changes from the master branch into a dev branch. Furthermore, the user implemented a feature to add an option for ignoring solution and project settings within the tools and options SDK-Style Projects page.
dotnetvisual-studio-extensionfsprojcsprojfsharp
swesonga/project-system
Oct 2019 - Nov 2021
The C#, F# and Visual Basic project system for Visual Studio
Contributions:82 pushes, 73 branches in 2 years 1 month
basic-projectdotnetvisual-basiccsharpvisual-studio
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