Union Palenshus
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolUnion Palenshus is a Senior Software Engineer based in Seattle with over a decade of experience specializing in Windows mobile and security-focused engineering. At Microsoft since 2007, he has deep expertise in building and validating secure mobile OS features and maintaining robust automated test suites. His background includes hands-on roles in test automation, code review, and cross-team troubleshooting that bridge development, PM, and lab teams to ship reliable releases. Early work in web development and teaching reflects strong fundamentals in software engineering and a talent for translating requirements into working systems. Although his public GitHub footprint is minimal, his long tenure on platform security suggests substantial behind-the-scenes impact on product reliability and testing infrastructure. He pairs practical engineering discipline with an educator’s instinct for clear documentation and process.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science; Software Engineering/Web Development; Math, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science; Software Engineering/Web Development; Math at Central Washington University
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Github Skills (170)
messenger10
windows10
command-line-interface10
telegram10
visual-studio10
command-line-tool10
netcore10
command-palette10
markdown10
linux10
powershell-module10
sdk10
powershell10
winget10
shell10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
palenshus/AzurePriorityPushQueue
Jul 2017 - Jun 2022
An Azure Storage Queue wrapper that supports priorities and abstracts exponential backoff polling away with an event-driven interface
Contributions:3 PRs, 8 pushes, 6 branches in 5 years
azure-storage-queueevent-drivenexponential-backoff
palenshus/winget-cli
Nov 2020 - Jun 2021
Windows Package Manager CLI (aka winget)
Contributions:2 PRs, 36 pushes, 5 branches in 7 months
windows-package-managerwindowspackage-managerwingetcli
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