Top Software Engineers in

Azure-Centric AI and Bot Development

Azure-Centric AI and Bot Development focuses on creating intelligent applications using Microsoft Azure. It integrates artificial intelligence, machine learning, and bot technologies, leveraging Azure's cloud capabilities to develop responsive AI systems and conversational bots. The area includes the use of various programming frameworks and tools to enhance interactions and operational efficiency across multiple platforms like SharePoint and Microsoft Teams.

Ranks are based on the open source contributions and reassessed every 30 days

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1

Hugo Bernier
World's Laziest Developer, powered by coffee at Takeda
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Canada
Rock Star
24.0 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
pnp/sp-dev-fx-webparts
Sp-dev-fx-webparts: 3105 commits in 4 years 8 months
pnp/sp-dev-fx-extensions
Sp-dev-fx-extensions: 433 commits in 4 years 4 months
pnp/blog
Blog: 376 commits in 1 year 1 months
Top skills
Score
react
10
angularjs
10
knockoutjs
10

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2

John Taylor
Software Engineer at Microsoft
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United States
Rock Star
32.0 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
microsoft/botbuilder-dotnet
Botbuilder-dotnet: 760 commits in 3 years 10 months
NuGet/NuGet.Services.Metadata
NuGet.Services.Metadata: 397 commits in 1 year 11 months
microsoft/BotBuilder-Samples
BotBuilder-Samples: 290 commits in 4 years 3 months
Top skills
Score
dotnet
10
bots
10
bot-framework
10

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3

Jen Looper
Head of Academic Advocacy at AWS, author of textbooks w/ Wiley: Computer Science for Kids (cs4kids.club) and the Illustrated AWS Cloud (illustratedaws.cloud), PhD (Univ. of CA, Berkeley), Fulbright Fellow, humanist
/
United States
Rock Star
24.0 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
microsoft/Web-Dev-For-Beginners
Web-Dev-For-Beginners: 338 commits in 1 year 6 months
dev-captain/Web_project
Web_project: 337 commits in 1 year 6 months
jlooper/azure-maya-mystery
Azure-maya-mystery: 304 commits in 7 months
Top skills
Score
javascript
10
html
10
css
10

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4

Scott Gellock
Director of Engineering at Microsoft
/
United States
Rock Star
32.0 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
microsoft/BotBuilder-Samples
BotBuilder-Samples: 232 commits in 2 years 7 months
shannonkeith/BotBuilder-Samples
BotBuilder-Samples: 78 commits in 7 days
perappr/https-github.com-Microsoft-BotBuilder-Samples-tree-master-samples-csharp_dotnetcore-
Https-github.com-Microsoft-BotBuilder-Samples-tree-master-samples-csharp_dotnetcore-: 29 commits in 25 days
Top skills
Score
bot-framework
10
sdk
10
typescript
10

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5

daveta
/
Rock Star
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
microsoft/botbuilder-dotnet
Botbuilder-dotnet: 220 commits in 3 years 1 months
microsoft/BotBuilder-Samples
BotBuilder-Samples: 196 commits in 3 years 5 months
southworks/BotBuilder-Samples
BotBuilder-Samples: 146 commits in 1 months
Top skills
Score
bot-framework
10
sdk
10
bots
10

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6

Steven Gum
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
/
United States
Rock Star
11.0 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
microsoft/botbuilder-js
Botbuilder-js: 384 commits in 4 years 9 months
microsoft/BotBuilder-Samples
BotBuilder-Samples: 181 commits in 2 years 3 months
microsoft/botbuilder-dotnet
Botbuilder-dotnet: 111 commits in 2 years 6 months
Top skills
Score
bot-framework
10
bots
10
sdk
10

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7

Vesa Juvonen
Principal Product Manager at Microsoft. Follow for Microsoft 365 and community topics.
/
Finland
Rock Star
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
SharePoint/sp-dev-docs
Sp-dev-docs: 1043 commits in 6 years 5 months
pnp/PnP
PnP: 654 commits in 7 years 2 months
MicrosoftDocs/office-docs-powershell
Office-docs-powershell: 326 commits in 3 years 4 months
Top skills
Score
sharepoint
10
connections
8
powershell
8

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8

Peter Paul Kirschner
Software Architect bei cubido business solutions GmbH at Cubido Business Solutions
/
Austria
18.0 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
pnp/sp-dev-fx-webparts
Sp-dev-fx-webparts: 175 commits in 2 years 5 months
petkir/react-image-manipulation-spfx
React-image-manipulation-spfx: 29 commits in 3 months
pnp/sp-dev-fx-controls-react
Sp-dev-fx-controls-react: 12 commits in 1 year 5 months
Top skills
Score
sharepoint-framework
10
angularjs
10
knockoutjs
10

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9

Chris McConnell
Software Engineer at Microsoft
/
United States
Rock Star
15.0 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
microsoft/botbuilder-dotnet
Botbuilder-dotnet: 419 commits in 3 years 1 months
microsoft/botframework-sdk
Botframework-sdk: 294 commits in 5 years 8 months
microsoft/botbuilder-tools
Botbuilder-tools: 171 commits in 1 year 1 months
Top skills
Score
bot-framework
10
sdk
10
javascript
8

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10

Dmitri Soshnikov
ex-Microsoft, Assoc.Prof. at MAI, MIPT and HSE, Founder of SHWARSICO and MAILabs
/
Russian Federation
Rock Star
32.0 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
microsoft/AI-For-Beginners
AI-For-Beginners: 102 commits in 11 months
evangelism/ModernAI
ModernAI: 61 commits in 2 years 4 months
shwars/NeuroWorkshop
NeuroWorkshop: 56 commits in 3 years 11 months
Top skills
Score
machine-learning
10
deep-learning
10
computer-vision
10

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11

Jason Sowers
Software Engineer at LivePerson
/
United States
Rock Star
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
microsoft/BotBuilder-Samples
BotBuilder-Samples: 123 commits in 3 years 6 months
southworks/BotBuilder-Samples
BotBuilder-Samples: 106 commits in 1 months
microsoft/botbuilder-dotnet
Botbuilder-dotnet: 20 commits in 8 months
Top skills
Score
bot-framework
10
sdk
10
typescript
10

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12

João Mendes
Senior Software Engineer with expertise in SPFx, Front-End, Microsoft365, ReactJS, FluentUI, Nodejs, Viva Connections at Silicon Reef
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Portugal
10.0 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
pnp/sp-dev-fx-webparts
Sp-dev-fx-webparts: 120 commits in 3 years 11 months
pnp/sp-dev-fx-controls-react
Sp-dev-fx-controls-react: 80 commits in 4 years 3 months
joaojmendes/teamsChatNotificationsFunctions
TeamsChatNotificationsFunctions: 28 commits in 27 days
Top skills
Score
react
10
angularjs
10
knockoutjs
10

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13

Ben Brown
Employed at Hacker
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United States
Rock Star
13.0 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
howdyai/botkit
Botkit: 2206 commits in 6 years 8 months
microsoft/BotFramework-Composer
BotFramework-Composer: 426 commits in 2 years 6 months
microsoft/botbuilder-js
Botbuilder-js: 270 commits in 1 year 6 months
Top skills
Score
bots
10
botkit
10
conversational-ui
10

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14

Bert Jansen
Senior Service Engineer SharePoint and OneDrive at Microsoft
/
Belgium
Rock Star
27.0 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
pnp/pnpcore
Pnpcore: 3464 commits in 2 years 9 months
pnp/PnP-Sites-Core
PnP-Sites-Core: 2241 commits in 5 years 6 months
pnp/pnpframework
Pnpframework: 1240 commits in 2 years 5 months
Top skills
Score
sharepoint
10
dotnet
10
microsoftgraph
10

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15

Erwin Van Hunen
CTO @ Rencore, MVP, MCM at Rencore
/
Sweden
Rock Star
14.0 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
pnp/PnP-PowerShell
PnP-PowerShell: 2657 commits in 5 years 6 months
pnp/powershell
Powershell: 1304 commits in 2 years 4 months
pnp/PnP-Sites-Core
PnP-Sites-Core: 1113 commits in 5 years 4 months
Top skills
Score
powershell
10
ms-office
2
short
2

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16

Thomas Petchel
Senior Software Engineer, Skilling at Microsoft
/
United States
Rock Star
22.0 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
MicrosoftDocs/learn
Learn: 2120 commits in 4 years 4 months
enterstudio/chef-web-docs
Chef-web-docs: 1951 commits in 3 years 2 months
MicrosoftDocs/mslearn-tailspin-spacegame-web
Mslearn-tailspin-spacegame-web: 161 commits in 3 years 2 months
Top skills
Score
microsoft
10
devops
10
azure-devops
10

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17

Hongyang Du
Microsoft Software engineer at Microsoft
/
China
Rock Star
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
microsoft/botbuilder-dotnet
Botbuilder-dotnet: 390 commits in 3 years 8 months
microsoft/botbuilder-js
Botbuilder-js: 143 commits in 1 year 9 months
microsoft/BotBuilder-Samples
BotBuilder-Samples: 83 commits in 2 years
Top skills
Score
bots
10
sdk
10
dotnet
10

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18

Chris Mullins
Microsoft at Microsoft
/
United States
Rock Star
26.0 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
microsoft/botbuilder-dotnet
Botbuilder-dotnet: 1334 commits in 3 years 2 months
microsoft/botbuilder-js
Botbuilder-js: 223 commits in 2 years 9 months
microsoft/botbuilder-tools
Botbuilder-tools: 163 commits in 1 year 2 months
Top skills
Score
bot-framework
10
bots
10
dotnet
10

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19

Mikael Svenson
Principal Engineer at Microsoft
/
Norway
Rock Star
31.0 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
microsoft-search/pnp-modern-search
Pnp-modern-search: 721 commits in 3 years 3 months
pnp/PnP-PowerShell
PnP-PowerShell: 208 commits in 5 years 3 months
pnp/PnP-Sites-Core
PnP-Sites-Core: 157 commits in 4 years 3 months
Top skills
Score
react
10
angularjs
10
knockoutjs
10

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20

Tracy Boehrer
Principal Engineer at Microsoft
/
United States
Rock Star
13.0 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
microsoft/botbuilder-python
Botbuilder-python: 447 commits in 3 years 2 months
microsoft/botbuilder-java
Botbuilder-java: 432 commits in 3 years 5 months
microsoft/BotBuilder-Samples
BotBuilder-Samples: 81 commits in 3 years 5 months
Top skills
Score
bot-framework
10
sdk
10
dotnet
10

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