Wallace Breza
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWallace Breza is a Principal Software Engineer with over 25 years of hands-on experience designing AI-driven, cloud-native systems and a current focus on Azure developer tooling at Microsoft. He spans the full stack—from modern front-ends and SDKs to resilient middle-tier services and scalable data platforms—and has been building for Azure and AWS since their early days. Wallace blends deep technical execution with strategic leadership, mentoring teams while shipping production-grade code and shaping dev experiences like the Azure Developer CLI. He is an active open-source contributor, improving projects such as VoTT, PowerBI-JavaScript, and the Azure Developer CLI with front-end fixes, build reliability enhancements, and deployment automation. Known for solving complex, security-conscious scaling problems, he also brings an uncommon background in cinematography that informs a strong UX sensibility. Wallace advocates for AI-native workflows that increase developer productivity and long-lived architectural correctness.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Cinematography and Film/Video Production, BA, Cinematography and Film/Video Production at Fairleigh Dickinson University
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Github Skills (42)
javascript10
dropdown-menu10
electron10
back-end-development10
testing10
css10
azure-functions10
typescript10
microsoft-azure10
powerbi10
serverless-framework10
typescript-types10
html10
azure10
serverless10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-dev
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
A developer CLI for working with Azure resources to build and deploy AI applications. Commands map to key workflow stages: code, build, deploy, and monitor.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 1813 reviews, 52 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Wallace primarily contributed to the `todo` template within the `azure/azure-dev` repository, focusing on UI and testing improvements. They updated Playwright UI tests, refactoring code and adding assertions. The user also addressed issues related to Static Web App deployments, including fixes for deployment issues and code adjustments to improve the user experience. In addition, the user implemented a custom docker option.
aiazureclimicrosoftdeployments
microsoft/VoTT
Nov 2018 - Dec 2021
Visual Object Tagging Tool: An electron app for building end to end Object Detection Models from Images and Videos.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 192 commits, 238 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Wallace primarily contributed to front-end development by fixing issues in the Electron main pipeline. They made code changes to the `main.ts` file, implementing features related to the Electron application. The user also added and modified various React components for the application including navbar, sidebar, pages, and forms. Furthermore, the user integrated and styled bootstrap components and added unit tests.
electronobject-detectioncntkvideo-taggingdeep-learning
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