Senior Software Engineer
Microsoft · Visual Studio
Own the architecture and evolution of the Visual Studio Installer, a graph-based platform for IDE installs, updates, migrations, and extensions, with end-to-end ownership of distributed workflow orchestration, telemetry, reliability, and performance.
- Developed Visual Studio Rollback and led delivery of extension support, soft-reboot behavior, installer experience improvements, and install/download optimizations. Reduced hard-reboot rate from 29.7% to 7.71%, supported 1.5K weekly Rollback sessions, and sustained 99%+ extension download success across 1.5M+ sessions annually.
- Designed and developed the dependency-aware foundation for parallel package installation using Kahn’s topological sort, preserving dependency order while parallelizing independent installs. Benchmarked up to 70% faster package installation and 30% end-to-end improvement, saving customers up to 3M hours annually, with rollout guarded by feature flags, telemetry, and staged validation.
- Lead Visual Studio Setup reliability through Kusto/KQL, telemetry analysis, crash and failure diagnostics, and AI-assisted automation using Copilot CLI and MCP-backed workflows. Converted multi-hour triage into automated reports and sustain 97%+ install success and 98–99%+ update success.
- Led the multi-year WiX 3 to WiX 6 modernization across repositories, partner teams, and legacy build systems. Redesigned decade-old MSI infrastructure spanning approximately 1,000 projects, pruned 352 unused projects, converted 286+ projects, and codified migration guidance into a reusable Copilot Agent Skill to reduce future partner-team migration effort.
- Shipped the Visual Studio 2026 migration experience across release channels, settings, and extensions, including the installer’s first per-user extension discovery capability. Supported 4M+ migration sessions across 232 countries/regions.
- Scaled team impact through architecture reviews, telemetry guidance, PR reviews, AI-assisted engineering standards, WiX migration training, technical demos, mentoring, inclusive hiring, and women-in-engineering community work reaching approximately 500 employees.
- Built Setup Hotseat Agent, a multi-persona AI agent with orchestration to streamline high-volume questions and feedback for the Setup team. Served as the first point of contact for users installing Visual Studio, reducing manual triage and response effort.