Tlakaelel Valadez
Software Engineer II - Azure Core at Microsoft
Bellevue, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolTlakaelel Valadez is aSoftware Engineer II at Microsoft with a decade-long track record building resilient infrastructure and runtime tooling for large-scale cloud systems. He has driven improvements in .NET runtime static analysis (ILLinker, NativeAOT) and contributes to high-profile repos like dotnet/runtime, where his work improved linker stability and error diagnostics. At Azure Core he designs orchestration services that let virtual and physical machines coexist on the same clusters, reducing infrastructure costs and simplifying multi-control-plane operations. Earlier roles at Oracle and Intel honed his kernel- and OS-level expertise in resource, memory and IO management, bridging low-level systems thinking with cloud-scale services. Known for making error experiences clearer and preventing runtime crashes, he blends meticulous back-end engineering with pragmatic tooling that improves developer and operational outcomes. Based in Redmond, he pairs an engineering degree from Tecnológico de Monterrey with hands-on open-source contributions under @tlakollo.
7 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Electronic and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Electronic and Computer Engineering at Tecnológico de MonterreyTechonologist, Mechanics and Automotive, Techonologist, Mechanics and Automotive at Centro de Enseñanza Técnica Industrial
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (16)
arcgisruntime10
asp-net10
net10
error-logging10
error-handling10
dotnet10
run-time10
linker10
runtimes10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
compiler-development10
refactor9
xml-parsing9
testing9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
dotnet/linker
Sep 2019 - Sep 2022
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:364 reviews, 81 commits, 173 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Tlakaelel primarily focused on improving the error experience and stability of the linker project. Their contributions included increasing standard error output logging, adding warning messages for potential assembly name typos, and skipping unresolved assemblies to prevent crashes. The user also made changes to the XML flow annotation source and implemented support for annotations in the LinkContext, as well as refactoring some code to improve readability.
dotnet/runtime
Jul 2019 - Jan 2023
.NET is a cross-platform runtime for cloud, mobile, desktop, and IoT apps.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:150 reviews, 117 commits, 103 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Tlakaelel's commits primarily focused on improving the error experience and refining the linker within the .NET runtime. They implemented features to improve error logging, including messages for unresolved assemblies and code formatting. Their contributions also included adding and modifying tests for the linker and improvements to the underlying code base by updating the code to match mono repo conventions.
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