Top Software Engineers in

Azure-Centric AI and Bot Development

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python
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microsoft
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azure
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machine-learning
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deep-learning

Azure-Centric AI and Bot Development focuses on creating intelligent applications using Microsoft Azure. It integrates artificial intelligence, machine learning, and bot technologies, leveraging Azure's cloud capabilities to develop responsive AI systems and conversational bots. The area includes the use of various programming frameworks and tools to enhance interactions and operational efficiency across multiple platforms like SharePoint and Microsoft Teams.

Ranks are based on the open source contributions and reassessed every 30 days

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1

Hugo Bernier
World's Laziest Developer, powered by coffee; Microsoft MVP at Takeda
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Canada
Rock Star
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
pnp/sp-dev-fx-webparts
2 releases, 12 reviews, 3105 commits in 4 years 8 months
pnp/blog
4 reviews, 376 commits, 55 PRs in 1 year 1 month
hugoabernier/hugoabernier
53 commits, 51 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 4 months
Top skills
Score
angular-elements
10
powerbi
10
microsoft
10

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2

Jen Looper
Head of Academic Advocacy at AWS, author of textbooks w/ Wiley: Computer Science for Kids (cs4kids.club) and the Illustrated AWS Cloud (illustratedaws.cloud), PhD (Univ. of CA, Berkeley), Fulbright Fellow, humanist
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United States
Rock Star
10 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
microsoft/Web-Dev-For-Beginners
280 reviews, 338 commits, 316 PRs in 1 year 6 months
dev-captain/Web_project
337 commits in 1 year 6 months
jlooper/azure-maya-mystery
304 commits, 62 PRs, 320 pushes in 7 months
Top skills
Score
css
10
opacity
10
tailwindcss
10

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3

Dmitri Soshnikov
ex-Microsoft, Assoc.Prof. at MAI, MIPT and HSE, Founder of SHWARSICO and MAILabs
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Russian Federation
Rock Star
10 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
MicrosoftDocs/learn
28 commits in 1 year 9 months
evangelism/ModernAI
1 release, 61 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 4 months
microsoft/AI-For-Beginners
102 commits, 10 PRs, 53 pushes in 11 months
Top skills
Score
scikit-learn
10
nlp
10
portrait
10

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4

Bert Jansen
Senior Product Manager @ Microsoft. Working on SharePoint Framework, extensibility feature retirements, SharePoint store experiences and various open-source projects at Microsoft
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Belgium
Rock Star
10 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
pnp/pnpcore
11 releases, 3464 commits, 230 PRs in 2 years 9 months
SharePoint/PnP-Guidance
315 commits, 54 PRs, 261 pushes in 2 years 9 months
pnp/PnP-Sites-Core
2241 commits, 488 PRs, 1779 pushes in 5 years 6 months
Top skills
Score
scenarios
10
microsoft
10
customers
10

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5

Erwin Van Hunen
MVP, MCM, "The Father of PnP PowerShell" at Mondaycoffee
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Sweden
Rock Star
10 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
MicrosoftDocs/office-docs-powershell
40 commits, 42 PRs, 9 comments in 3 years 1 month
pnp/PnP-PowerShell
91 releases, 2657 commits, 1984 PRs in 5 years 6 months
pnp/powershell
9 releases, 5 reviews, 1304 commits in 2 years 4 months
Top skills
Score
azure-ad
10
azure-ad-b2c
10
azure-cognitive-services
10

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6

John Taylor
Software Engineer at Microsoft
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United States
Rock Star
11 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
microsoft/botbuilder-dotnet
255 reviews, 760 commits, 418 PRs in 3 years 10 months
NuGet/NuGet.Services.Metadata
397 commits, 14 PRs, 148 pushes in 1 year 11 months
microsoft/BotBuilder-Samples
25 reviews, 290 commits, 322 PRs in 4 years 3 months
Top skills
Score
metadata
10
chat
10
typescript
10

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7

Scott Gellock
VP of Engineering, Microsoft Copilot Studio at Microsoft
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United States
Rock Star
11 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
microsoft/BotBuilder-Samples
10 reviews, 232 commits, 333 PRs in 2 years 7 months
microsoft/botframework-sdk
1 review, 9 commits, 20 PRs in 2 years 6 months
shannonkeith/BotBuilder-Samples
78 commits in 7 days
Top skills
Score
react
10
conversation
10
get-started
10

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Vesa Juvonen
Principal Product Manager at Microsoft. Follow for Microsoft 365 and community topics. Microsoft MVP lead for Microsoft 365 Development area.
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Finland
Rock Star
10 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
SharePoint/sp-dev-docs
7 reviews, 1043 commits, 1029 PRs in 6 years 5 months
SharePoint/PnP-Guidance
233 commits, 72 PRs, 215 pushes in 3 years 5 months
MicrosoftDocs/office-docs-powershell
326 commits, 208 PRs, 252 pushes in 3 years 4 months
Top skills
Score
css
10
powerapps
10
csom
10

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9

Peter Paul Kirschner
Software Architect bei ACP CUBIDO Digital Solutions GmbH at Acp Cubido
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Austria
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
pnp/sp-dev-fx-webparts
175 commits, 18 PRs, 65 comments in 2 years 5 months
petkir/react-mind-map-fluentUI
5 commits, 11 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year 7 months
pnp/sp-dev-fx-controls-react
12 commits, 8 PRs, 5 comments in 1 year 5 months
Top skills
Score
azure-ad
10
sharepoint
10
react
10

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10

Dave Twaddell
Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services
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United States
Rock Star
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
microsoft/botbuilder-dotnet
18 reviews, 220 commits, 75 PRs in 3 years 1 month
microsoft/BotBuilder-Samples
7 reviews, 196 commits, 103 PRs in 3 years 5 months
microsoft/botbuilder-js
8 reviews, 83 commits, 45 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Top skills
Score
csharp
10
yeoman
10
office-365
10

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Steven Gum
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
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United States
Rock Star
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
microsoft/botbuilder-js
3 releases, 573 reviews, 384 commits in 4 years 9 months
microsoft/BotBuilder-Samples
26 reviews, 181 commits, 185 PRs in 2 years 3 months
microsoft/botbuilder-dotnet
68 reviews, 111 commits, 77 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Top skills
Score
react
10
office-365
10
conversational-ai
10

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12

Christopher Mcconnell
6+ years of experience in developing large systems using Python & Java to support multiple million dollar projects. at Microsoft
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United States
Rock Star
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
microsoft/botbuilder-dotnet
247 reviews, 419 commits, 178 PRs in 3 years 1 month
microsoft/botframework-sdk
1 release, 13 reviews, 294 commits in 5 years 8 months
chrimc62/EntityMatch
22 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 7 months
Top skills
Score
resolution
10
kebab-case
10
dotnetcore
10

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13

Julia Muiruri
Cloud Advocate at Microsoft
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Kenya
Rock Star
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
microsoft/Web-Dev-For-Beginners
1 review, 30 commits, 12 PRs in 2 months
dev-captain/Web_project
30 commits in 2 months
microsoft/30daysof
59 commits, 33 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 month
Top skills
Score
css
10
javascript
10
computer-vision
10

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Jason Sowers
Employed at LivePerson
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United States
Rock Star
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
microsoft/BotBuilder-Samples
123 commits, 103 PRs, 248 pushes in 3 years 6 months
southworks/BotBuilder-Samples
106 commits in 1 month
microsoft/botframework-sdk
10 commits, 28 PRs, 24 pushes in 8 months
Top skills
Score
csharp
10
get-started
10
conversational-ui
10

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15

Ben Brown
A cool guy to work with at Microsoft
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United States
Rock Star
13 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
howdyai/botkit
6 releases, 6 reviews, 2206 commits in 6 years 8 months
microsoft/BotFramework-Composer
391 reviews, 426 commits, 219 PRs in 2 years 6 months
howdyai/botkit-docs
178 commits, 18 PRs, 160 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Top skills
Score
devrel
10
nodejs
10
technical-writing
10

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Mikael Svenson
Principal Engineer at Microsoft
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Norway
Rock Star
14 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
microsoft-search/pnp-modern-search
24 releases, 56 reviews, 721 commits in 3 years 3 months
pnp/PnP-Sites-Core
157 commits, 62 PRs, 62 pushes in 4 years 3 months
pnp/sp-dev-solutions
9 releases, 138 commits, 129 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Top skills
Score
azure-ad
10
client-side
10
microsoft
10

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Lateefah Bello
Student | Volunteer | TBP Fellow at Leonine Investment Services
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Nigeria
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
microsoft/AI-For-Beginners
6 reviews, 21 commits, 11 PRs in 29 days
microsoft/IoT-For-Beginners
12 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 1 month
CinnamonXI/CinnamonXI
22 PRs, 26 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 1 month
Top skills
Score
cyber-security
10
iot-device
10
iot
10

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18

Hongyang Du
Microsoft Software engineer at Microsoft
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China
Rock Star
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
microsoft/botbuilder-dotnet
30 reviews, 390 commits, 449 PRs in 3 years 8 months
microsoft/botbuilder-js
46 reviews, 143 commits, 354 PRs in 1 year 9 months
microsoft/BotBuilder-Samples
7 reviews, 83 commits, 64 PRs in 2 years
Top skills
Score
uwp
10
wpf
10
csharp
10

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Thomas Petchel
Senior Software Engineer, Skilling at Microsoft
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United States
Rock Star
10 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
MicrosoftDocs/learn
2120 commits in 4 years 4 months
enterstudio/chef-web-docs
1951 commits in 3 years 2 months
MicrosoftDocs/mslearn-tailspin-spacegame-web
161 commits, 1768 PRs, 136 pushes in 3 years 2 months
Top skills
Score
auditing
10
hugo
10
devrel
10

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