Peli de Halleux
Agentic Engineer, Microsoft
Peli de Halleux is listed as Agentic Engineer, Microsoft. Peli is scheduled to speak at Microsoft Ignite 2026 on 19 November 2026.
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About
Jonathan "Peli" de Halleux is a Principal Research Software Engineer at Microsoft Research, where he created GitHub Agentic Workflows. He's also one of the creators of MakeCode and previously built GenAIScript, DeviceScript, and Jacdac. Earlier in his career, he created Pex and Moles for automated test generation in .NET. Peli holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics from the Catholic University of Louvain. He brings a deep practitioner perspective on AI agent orchestration, agentic automation, and developer tooling.
Upcoming
Microsoft Ignite 2026 17 November 2026 – 20 November 2026
- From one automation to many: GitHub Agentic Workflows at scale Speaker · 19 November 2026
Spoke alongside
People who have shared a session with Peli at events on B2DB.
- Alejandro Menocal Senior DevOps Engineer · GitHub 1 shared session
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- Heather Cook Principal PM Manager, Microsoft 365 Customer Advocacy Group 9 sessions
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- Bethany Jepchumba Developer Relations 7 sessions
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