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Sam Harwell

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Sam Harwell

Worked on the Roslyn and dotnet/sdk repositories, delivering features and fixes that enhanced language tooling, diagnostics, and resource management. Focused on C# and Visual Basic, the work included expanding editor test coverage for string escape sequences, migrating and cleaning up unit tests, and improving analyzer correctness with regression testing. Addressed encoding preservation and resource generator issues, implemented robust language server shutdown, and extended dotnet-format to support new solution file types. Leveraged .NET frameworks, asynchronous programming, and Roslyn analyzers to improve reliability, cross-framework compatibility, and developer productivity, with a strong emphasis on code analysis, refactoring, and automated testing.

Overall Statistics

Feature vs Bugs

58%Features

Repository Contributions

21Total
Bugs
5
Commits
21
Features
7
Lines of code
1,315
Activity Months4

Your Network

4930 people

Work History

April 2025

5 Commits • 2 Features

Apr 1, 2025

April 2025 monthly performance: Key deliverables across Roslyn and dotnet/sdk focusing on external-facing API, stability, and cross-framework correctness. Highlights include public API surface for resource files, ResX generator empty namespace handling, robust language server shutdown, and CA2241 analyzer enhancement with StringSyntaxAttribute support and caching. These changes improve business value by enabling external tooling, stabilizing development workflows, and ensuring reliable string formatting analysis across frameworks.

March 2025

5 Commits • 2 Features

Mar 1, 2025

March 2025 monthly summary focusing on key deliverables across CyrusNajmabadi/roslyn and dotnet/sdk. Highlights include delivering NotImplementedException handling for C# Copilot, improving diagnostics reliability and test stability, extending dotnet-format to support .slnx extensions, and overall impact on developer productivity and product quality.

February 2025

10 Commits • 2 Features

Feb 1, 2025

February 2025 monthly summary for CyrusNajmabadi/roslyn focused on delivering robust testing infrastructure, harder analyzer correctness, and targeted codebase simplifications that reduce maintenance burden while increasing reliability and developer velocity.

January 2025

1 Commits • 1 Features

Jan 1, 2025

January 2025 monthly summary: Focused on strengthening C# editor test coverage in the Roslyn project by delivering targeted tests for string escape sequence handling. Added tests for additional string escape scenarios (e.g. '\x0003' and '\0') to ensure the editor's semantic classification remains correct within string literals, reducing risk of misclassification during editing. This work supports more robust language feature verification and editor reliability.

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Quality Metrics

Correctness95.2%
Maintainability94.2%
Architecture90.4%
Performance86.6%
AI Usage21.0%

Skills & Technologies

Programming Languages

C#VBVisual Basic

Technical Skills

.NET FrameworksAPI DesignAPI DevelopmentAsynchronous ProgrammingAttribute HandlingBug FixingC# DevelopmentCachingCode AnalysisCode GenerationCode OrganizationCode RefactoringCompiler DevelopmentCore LibrariesDiagnostics

Repositories Contributed To

2 repos

Overview of all repositories you've contributed to across your timeline

CyrusNajmabadi/roslyn

Jan 2025 Apr 2025
4 Months active

Languages Used

C#VBVisual Basic

Technical Skills

C# DevelopmentUnit TestingAPI DesignAPI DevelopmentBug FixingCode Analysis

dotnet/sdk

Mar 2025 Apr 2025
2 Months active

Languages Used

C#VB

Technical Skills

File HandlingSoftware DevelopmentTesting .NET FrameworksAttribute HandlingCaching