Winston Liu
Software Engineer II at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolWinston Liu is a Software Engineer II at Microsoft with 13 years of experience building developer-facing tooling and polished user experiences. He has a strong front-end and full-stack background from extensive contributions to the Atom editor ecosystem and VS Code C# support, and has also delivered back-end fixes to legacy game tooling like SourceMod. At Microsoft he works on Windows engineering systems, blending UI/UX sensibility with reliability and dependency hygiene. A former CS teaching assistant and technical writer, he brings clear communication and mentorship to engineering teams. Quietly practical, he pairs attention to developer workflows and test quality with a knack for improving build processes and cross-platform tooling.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Virginia in ValenciaBachelors, Computer Science, with highest distinction, Bachelors, Computer Science, with highest distinction at University of Virginia
Chinese, Spanish
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Github Skills (75)
atom-editor10
python10
testing10
c1110
file-operations10
refactor10
c1710
asp-net10
fuzzy-finder10
source-engine10
modifiers10
build-automation10
jtest10
appsettings10
refactoring10
Programming languages (27)
Github contributions (5)
atom/language-javascript
Apr 2015 - Apr 2019
JavaScript language package for Atom
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:289 commits, 218 PRs, 268 pushes in 4 years
Contributions summary:Winston primarily contributed to the Atom JavaScript language package by improving the code's tokenization and adding and updating specifications. The user's work included implementing tokenization for ALL_CAPS variables, as well as improving the tokenization of variables declared using `const`. They also created unit tests to verify the correct tokenization of JavaScript syntax elements.
javascript
atom/language-python
Jul 2015 - Sep 2021
Python package for Atom
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:112 commits, 68 PRs, 86 pushes in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Winston primarily contributed to the grammar and syntax highlighting for the Python language within the Atom editor. They focused on improving the accuracy and functionality of the syntax highlighting by updating the grammar definition files. The user worked on enhancing string formatting, tokenizing f-strings, and correcting regular expression handling, demonstrating a focus on improving the developer experience through precise and correct code presentation. Furthermore, they have integrated SQL highlighting and incorporated additional features.
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