Sandeep Somavarapu
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Sandeep Somavarapu is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building collaboration, tracking and planning products, currently driving engineering at Microsoft from Zurich. He cut his teeth at IBM as one of the rare India-lab engineers who owned Rational Project Conductor from design through release and was a top contributor to Rational Team Concert’s tracking and planning components. Deeply versed in Java and the JavaScript stack, he combines Agile and TDD practices with expertise in Jazz/Eclipse platforms, OSLC standards and ReST architectures. At Microsoft he contributes to widely used VS Code projects, improving editor features, extension management and tooling such as a language-model-powered release-notes assistant that spans multiple repositories. Collected experience across product design, UI/UX and backend systems gives him a pragmatic full‑stack perspective and a knack for shipping developer-facing features. He holds a BE in Computer Science from BITS Pilani and is known for bridging platform-level architecture with hands-on implementation.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science at Birla Institute of Technology and Science
Github Skills (26)
debugging10
debug10
javascript10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
ui-design10
vim10
uid10
front-end-development10
vscode10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
testing9
editor9
text-editor9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/vscode
May 2016 - Jan 2023
Visual Studio Code
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 1318 reviews, 7360 commits in 6 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Sandeep primarily contributed to the VS Code editor, working on output-related features by changing icons and code related to global composite bars, along with fixing issues related to the markers view and implementing new features in the profiles editor. They also addressed bugs, such as fixing the positioning of the toolbar and handling issues related to display. Furthermore, their work included improvements to the documentation and fixing various editor related problems.
visual-studio-codeelectronvscodevscode-extensionmicrosoft
microsoft/vscode-extension-samples
Jul 2016 - May 2020
Sample code illustrating the VS Code extension API.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 128 commits, 10 PRs in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Sandeep primarily contributed to the development of a Vim extension, focusing on implementing core features such as operators and motions. Their work involved creating and modifying TypeScript files related to the Vim functionality. The user also addressed various aspects of the extension, from defining mappings to creating commands and ensuring proper selection behavior. The user also worked on the tree view and file explorer sample, adding functionalities to the project.
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