Ella Hathaway
Software Engineer II at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolElla Hathaway is a Software Engineer II at Microsoft with three years of hands-on experience building and testing core .NET tooling and container images. A University of Michigan CS graduate, she has contributed to high-profile open-source projects—improving .NET SDK networking by modernizing WebClient usage to efficient, async HttpClient patterns and strengthening dotnet-docker’s test automation and validation. She balances backend systems expertise with web development experience from internships (React/Flask full-stack and frontend component work) and a history of teaching CS courses, which informs her focus on developer ergonomics and clear testing practices. Based in Redmond, Ella brings a mix of production-grade engineering, test automation chops, and a commitment to broadening diversity in computer science.
3 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Rowland Hall-St. Mark's SchoolBachelor of Science in Engineering - BSE, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science in Engineering - BSE, Computer Science at University of Michigan
Github Skills (15)
async-await10
asp-net10
net10
http-client10
dotnet10
sdk10
dotnet-sdk10
csharp10
net-sdk10
xunit10
dotnet-core10
test-automation10
dockers9
docker9
git9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
dotnet/dotnet-docker
Jun 2024 - Apr 2026
Official container images for .NET
Role in this project:
Test Automation Engineer
Test Automation EngineerContributions:20 reviews, 11 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Ella contributed to the test suite for the .NET Docker repository by modifying existing test files and creating new helper methods. Their work primarily involved improving the file comparison logic using `git diff` for the `VerifyDotnetFolderContents` test. The user also optimized the tests by reducing the output on failure and ensuring tests run against all images. Additionally, the user introduced new tests and test structure related to tag validation and schema verification.
container-imagedotnet
dotnet/sdk
Nov 2023 - Jun 2026
Core functionality needed to create .NET Core projects, that is shared between Visual Studio and CLI
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:203 reviews, 170 PRs, 128 pushes in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Ella primarily contributed to the .NET SDK, focusing on replacing obsolete `WebClient` usages with `HttpClient`. This involved code modifications across multiple files to update the networking code. They further enhanced the code by instantiating `HttpClient` once and making use of async/await patterns for improved performance.
clidotnetvisual-studiosdk
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