Zander Chocron
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolZander Chocron is a Principal Software Engineer based in Seattle with a decade of experience building cross-platform mobile SDKs and production integrations at Microsoft. He has advanced through engineering roles since 2016, focusing on .NET, iOS, and React Native SDK work—contributing notable enhancements to Microsoft App Center like multi-platform push support, crash-reporting bridges for React Native, and richer event serialization across Apple platforms. Zander blends mobile client engineering with backend-facing responsibilities, routinely reorganizing codebases and adding feature-complete test app protocols to improve developer experience. He’s comfortable shipping Objective-C/Swift and .NET changes that span Android, iOS, macOS, and shared code, and he pairs bug fixes with pragmatic feature additions. Colleagues rely on him to bridge native and cross-platform ecosystems and to shepherd SDK improvements from design through demo app validation. Trained in Computer Science at the University of Michigan, he brings both rigorous engineering fundamentals and hands-on open-source collaboration to large-scale developer tooling.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science at University of Michigan
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Github Skills (19)
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android10
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/appcenter-sdk-dotnet
Oct 2016 - Nov 2019
Development repository for the App Center SDK for .NET platforms, including Xamarin
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer
Mobile DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 1185 commits, 387 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Zander primarily worked on the .NET SDK for the App Center platform, making multiple code changes related to the implementation of push notifications on various mobile platforms, adding or correcting the use of existing functionality, such as the method to set the device country. These changes span across Android, iOS, and shared code, focusing on features like enabling firebase analytics and integrating different SDK features. The user also fixed some bugs and made improvements in the demo app.
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microsoft/appcenter-sdk-apple
Oct 2016 - Dec 2019
Development repository for the App Center SDK for iOS, macOS and tvOS.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:789 commits, 137 PRs, 495 pushes in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Zander implemented a file reorganization and a log filter for the "SasquatchMac" platform. The user added additional features to the test apps for the "SasquatchTV" and "SasquatchMac" platforms, with the aim of creating new protocols. The user has added a method to the event properties to handle the new types such as dateTime, double, and others and to serialize them correctly.
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