Brian Alker
Software Development Engineer at Microsoft
Bellevue, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Alker is a Software Development Engineer with five years of experience, currently working on Microsoft Windows 8 from his base in Bellevue, WA. He brings a polyglot background—Ruby on Rails, Python, C/C++, Java, and Verilog—coupled with a Berkeley EECS degree that blends hardware understanding with software practice. Brian excels at reading, modifying, and debugging others' code, rapidly mastering new concepts and adapting to evolving project needs. His experience includes web-based application and database design, test-driven agile workflows, and hands-on billing software development in Python. Known for strong communication and a pragmatic, curiosity-driven approach, he thrives on turning legacy codebases into maintainable, production-ready systems.
6 years of coding experience
BS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, BS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Github Skills (24)
nuget10
windows-desktop10
windows10
command-line-interface10
winui10
windows-app-sdk10
windows-service10
powershell-module10
windows-ui10
command-line10
winget10
wpf10
cpp10
csharp10
dashboard9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
brialmsft/win32
Jan 2024 - May 2024
Public mirror for win32-pr
Contributions:2 pushes in 4 months
brialmsft/sdk-api
Jun 2025 - Jun 2025
Public contributions for win32 API documentation
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
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