Thomas Chung
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Chung is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years at Microsoft, focused on cloud-scale, fault-tolerant architectures for OneDrive and SharePoint. He blends deep .NET (C#) expertise with hands-on experience across C++, Java, and experimental Swift, and recently returned from management to resume individual-contributor engineering on large-scale storage services. Thomas has led migrations to SQL Azure, contributed to conversational AI efforts, and helped coordinate and mentor 60+ interns as an organizer for ODSP’s internship program. An active advocate within the LGBTQAI+ community, he serves on his group’s GLEAM board and prioritizes growing other engineers through coaching and mentorship. Based in Seattle, he pairs a passion for high-performance distributed systems with practical production experience powering billions of users. Outside work he’s an avid cyclist, skier and recreational chef—an engineer who also enjoys optimizing recipes as much as systems.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science Computer Engineering at The University of British Columbia
Chinese, Japanese, English
Github Skills (16)
bot-framework10
bots10
microsoft-cognitive-services10
conversation10
microsoft9
azure9
dialogue-systems8
dialog8
sdk8
dotnet7
csharp6
conversational-ai6
dotnet-core6
chatbot5
cli-tools3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
thomas-chung/CollabList
Dec 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:1 release, 27 PRs, 23 pushes in 1 day
microsoft/botframework-components
Jan 2021 - Aug 2021
The repository for components built by Microsoft for the Azure Bot Framework.
Contributions:153 reviews, 64 commits, 137 PRs in 7 months
botazure-botframeworkconversationbots
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