Stephen Weatherford
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Kirkland, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarStephen Weatherford is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft with 11 years of experience specializing in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and backend systems. He brings deep practical expertise in Azure deployments and IaC, contributing to high-profile open-source projects like Azure Quickstart Templates, Bicep, the VS Code Docker extension, and Terraform providers. At Microsoft he focuses on converting and modernizing deployment templates (ARM→Bicep), improving test coverage and interpolation behavior in Bicep, and enhancing CI/build workflows—work that underscores both hands-on coding and infrastructure design skills. Colleagues know him as a pragmatic problem-solver who bridges developer tooling and cloud platform concerns, and his contributions to widely used repos reflect an emphasis on reliability and automation at scale. An interesting detail: despite a “retired Microsoft software engineer” bio on GitHub, he remains actively shaping Azure and Terraform tooling used across the cloud ecosystem.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (47)
unit-testing10
docker10
bicep10
cloud-manager10
cloud-computing10
cloud-infrastructure10
microsoft-azure10
vscode-extension10
dockers10
terraform-provider10
infrastructure-management10
terraform10
cicd10
azure-resource-manager10
terraformer10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/bicep
May 2021 - Jan 2023
Bicep is a declarative language for describing and deploying Azure resources
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1117 reviews, 183 commits, 3336 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Stephen primarily contributed to fixing tests related to file resolution and interpolation simplification. They were responsible for addressing bugs within the Bicep.Core.UnitTests directory, focused on file system functionality, and improving the behavior of string interpolation in the bicep language. The user also addressed issues related to linter rule implementation and improved code quality. These commits demonstrate their ability to write and maintain test cases for the codebase.
deployingazure-resourcesarm-jsondeclarativedeclarative-language
microsoft/vscode-docker
Jun 2018 - Aug 2019
Docker Extension for Visual Studio Code
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:11 releases, 175 commits, 327 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Stephen contributed to the development and enhancement of the Docker extension for Visual Studio Code. Their work includes adding support for build, lint, and CI support, fixing build issues, and implementing format-on-save functionality. They also focused on automating the VSIX upload process by including options to skip uploads if ENV vars were not set.
dockerfilevisual-studio-codevscodevscode-extensiondocker
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