Vritant Bhardwaj
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVritant Bhardwaj is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft in Seattle with a decade of experience building developer tooling and AI-driven features for VS Code and GitHub Copilot. He has re-engineered core testing infrastructure like Microsoft Fakes for cross-platform .NET Core use and improved test performance through hot-reloaded compilation and enhanced logging. More recently he architected end-to-end prototypes for inline AI edit suggestions and tool-ranking optimizations, helping validate fine-tuned models that outperformed GPT-4o for specific editing tasks. Vritant pairs deep systems and backend skills with applied AI experimentation, shipping prototypes that have been productized, such as the GitHub Triage Agent. He also has academic roots in simulation and teaching, having built biological simulations and taught systems programming, which fuels his interest in making computer science accessible. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who moves from research prototypes to robust, production-ready tooling.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Purdue University
English, Hindi
Github Skills (17)
unit-testing10
testing10
net10
dotnet10
asp-net10
automation10
autobuild10
build-automation10
dotnet-core10
automated-build10
release-automation10
csharp10
deployment-automation10
test-automation10
powershell8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/vstest
Apr 2020 - Sep 2022
Visual Studio Test Platform is the runner and engine that powers test explorer and vstest.console.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:15 reviews, 12 commits, 22 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Vritant primarily focused on enhancing the Fakes data collector within the test platform. Their contributions included refactoring existing code, enabling new configurators for .NET Core, and fixing build-related issues. The user also added binaries and test runner harness consumption to enable Fakes in .NET Core and addressed design-mode functionality for the Fakes task. Additionally, they updated various Fakes-related packages and corrected documentation links.
visual-studiodotnetconsoletest-platformtesting
vritant24/vritant24.github.io
Sep 2017 - Sep 2024
My Website
Contributions:2 PRs, 41 pushes, 4 branches in 7 years 1 month
jekyll
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