Vitaliy Kurokhtin
Principal Software Development Engineer at Microsoft
Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russian Federation
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RockstarVitaliy Kurokhtin is a Principal Software Development Engineer with over a decade of experience building and shaping backend systems at Microsoft, where he progressed from SDE to principal since 2014. He brings deep expertise in API tooling and specification parsing, demonstrated by contributions to the widely used microsoft/OpenAPI.NET SDK that fixed schema corruption and improved handling of properties like produces, example and header parameters. Based in Krasnoyarsk Krai, he combines hands‑on implementation skills with architectural thinking developed during earlier software architect roles. Known for tackling subtle parsing and interoperability bugs, he focuses on making developer-facing systems robust and spec-compliant while mentoring teams to deliver reliable platform components.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (16)
yaml10
azure10
csharp10
openapi10
dotnet-core10
asp-net9
net9
dotnet9
http9
azure-api-management6
azure-bicep6
azure-arm-templates6
api6
rest6
azure-active-directory6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/OpenAPI.NET
Dec 2018 - Feb 2020
The OpenAPI.NET SDK contains a useful object model for OpenAPI documents in .NET along with common serializers to extract raw OpenAPI JSON and YAML documents from the model.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 11 PRs, 28 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Vitaliy primarily contributed to enhancing the OpenAPI.NET SDK, focusing on the reader component. Their commits addressed parsing issues, particularly concerning schema corruption and the correct handling of properties like 'produces' and 'example' within the OpenAPI document structure. They also incorporated new features related to header parameters. This work demonstrates their expertise in parsing and manipulating OpenAPI specifications.
object-modelapiyamlserializerssdk
VitaliyKurokhtin/azure-rest-api-specs
Jan 2018 - May 2024
The source for REST API specifications for Microsoft Azure.
Contributions:9 PRs, 27 pushes, 51 branches in 6 years 4 months
apispecificationsrestmicrosoft-azuremicrosoft
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