Tracy Boehrer is a Principal SDE Lead at Microsoft with over two decades of engineering and leadership experience and six years in senior roles focused on conversational AI and bot frameworks. She leads the Java and Python Bot Framework SDKs and contributes to Power Virtual Agents and Agents SDK work, blending deep backend expertise with runtime and OpenAI-driven conversational features. Her career spans founding a voice-technology startup, architecting carrier-class telephony systems, and directing mobile product engineering for offline-capable iOS and Android apps. An active open-source contributor across major Microsoft bot repositories, she’s known for pragmatic refactors, cross-platform mention-handling middleware, and improving sample quality and test coverage. Based in Oklahoma City, she combines systems-level architecture, developer tooling, and product-facing UX improvements—often surfacing platform compatibility fixes that quietly prevent large-scale integration issues.
The Microsoft Bot Framework provides what you need to build and connect intelligent bots that interact naturally wherever your users are talking, from text/sms to Skype, Slack, Office 365 mail and other popular services.
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Back-end Developer
Contributions:18 releases, 102 reviews, 447 commits in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Tracy's commits focused on standardizing code samples within the `microsoft/botbuilder-python` repository. This primarily involved modifying `app.py` and `on_error` messages across different sample projects. The user also added and modified code in multiple sample projects, specifically related to the `multi-turn-prompt` and `echo-bot` examples, removing extraneous LUIS keys from configuration and making further improvements. These contributions improve code quality and reduce redundancy across multiple examples.
Welcome to the Bot Framework samples repository. Here you will find task-focused samples in C#, JavaScript/TypeScript, and Python to help you get started with the Bot Framework SDK!
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Back-end Developer
Contributions:119 reviews, 81 commits, 312 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Tracy primarily focused on refactoring code to remove the use of loggers, replacing them with direct calls to the console. They also updated several JavaScript and TypeScript files, modifying bot logic within Facebook, Dispatch, and other bot samples. The changes show an effort to streamline and optimize the existing code base within the Bot Framework samples.
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