Tara Overfield
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Cary, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolTara Overfield is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft with seven years in software and over 15 years of hands-on engineering leadership from a prior career as a US Army watercraft engineering officer. She designs and operates release pipelines and servicing processes for the .NET ecosystem, delivering hundreds of monthly updates that serve billions of customers while significantly reducing manual effort and improving cross-organizational collaboration. Tara pairs systems-level reliability engineering with operational rigor honed from managing multi-million-dollar equipment inventories and shipboard machinery, bringing rare domain experience in both mission-critical physical systems and large-scale software delivery. Based in Cary, North Carolina, she blends technical depth in release management and testing with contract, logistics, and people leadership to drive dependable, auditable outcomes.
7 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts and Sciences (AAS), Business focus, Associate of Arts and Sciences (AAS), Business focus at Pierce College at PuyallupMSSA (Microsoft Software & Systems Academy), MSSA (Microsoft Software & Systems Academy) at Saint Martin's UniversityBachelor in Arts in Social Sciences, minor in Business Administration, Bachelor in Arts in Social Sciences, minor in Business Administration at Washington State University
Github Skills (7)
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dotnet10
csharp10
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microsoft9
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
microsoft/dotnet
Aug 2022 - Aug 2022
This repo is the official home of .NET on GitHub. It's a great starting point to find many .NET OSS projects from Microsoft and the community, including many that are part of the .NET Foundation.
Contributions:1 review, 8 commits, 1 PR in 1 day
dotnetstarting-pointossmauifoundation
dotnet/docs
Aug 2022 - Aug 2022
This repository contains .NET Documentation.
Contributions:20 reviews, 1 commit, 34 PRs in 1 day
dotnetfsharpvisual-basiccsharpdotnet-core
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