Eleanor Boyd
Software Engineer II at Microsoft
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolEleanor Boyd is a Software Engineer II at Microsoft with five years of experience building developer tools, currently working on VS Code core and leading the Python environments, testing, and debugging areas. She’s the lead engineer behind the Python extension and Python Environments extension that collectively reach hundreds of millions of users, having redesigned core testing to move logic into Python subprocesses and closed 500+ issues for greater reliability. Eleanor also maintains the Python Debugger extension and shipped high-demand features like Django test support and no-config debugging, collaborating closely with upstream communities such as Django and pytest. Beyond shipping features, she contributes to model evaluation and partnerships to improve open-source model performance in VS Code, blending systems engineering with ML-oriented tooling research. Notably, her open-source work on the flagship microsoft/vscode and vscode-python repos spans frontend UI actions, backend test automation, and robust cross-OS environment handling.
5 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Wellesley High SchoolBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (23)
unit-testing10
editors10
javascript10
pytest10
python10
ide10
typescript10
editor10
vscode10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
test-automation10
electron9
subprocess9
remote-development9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/vscode-python
Oct 2022 - Dec 2022
Python extension for Visual Studio Code
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:11 releases, 228 reviews, 2 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Eleanor primarily focused on implementing new testing logic within the pytest framework for the VS Code Python extension. They added and modified code related to test discovery, execution, and the handling of subtests, particularly for Django projects. The user also made improvements to handle error conditions, file paths, and ensure correct environment variable settings for the testing subprocess. Their contributions enhanced the robustness and functionality of the test suite within the project.
python-extensionvisual-studio-code
microsoft/vscode
Nov 2022 - Nov 2022
Visual Studio Code
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:71 reviews, 3 commits, 27 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Eleanor's contributions primarily involve modifications and additions to the Visual Studio Code codebase. They added a comment regarding error messages related to port issues, indicating backend interaction. The user also worked on the frontend code by implementing UI component actions for the testing explorer and making edits to existing menu functionality.
visual-studio-codeeditorelectrontypescriptmicrosoft
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