Adam Ratzman
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolAdam Ratzman is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft with nine years of experience building developer tools and cloud-native systems using React, Kotlin, Java, and C#. He contributes to prominent .NET projects for Visual Studio and tooling—working on the .NET Project System and Aspire dashboard improvements that enhance observability and accessibility for production apps. He combines backend systems work with front-end UX sensibilities, shipping features that improve resource health visibility and console workflows for low-vision and mobile users. A passionate open-source advocate and former instructor, he frequently mentors students and developers while translating academic rigor from his MS/BS in Computer Science into production-quality code. Based in Washington, D.C., he brings both large-scale Microsoft engineering experience and a knack for making developer-facing tools more usable and inclusive.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Indiana University Bloomington
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Github Skills (26)
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front-end-development10
dotnet-core10
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blazor-server10
back-end-development9
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docker9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
dotnet/aspire
Dec 2023 - Apr 2025
Tools, templates, and packages to accelerate building observable, production-ready apps
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:495 reviews, 276 PRs, 123 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Adam contributed to the development of the Aspire dashboard by adding features and modifying code related to container management and user interface elements. Their work included the implementation of command line arguments for project resources, the creation of menu buttons for console logs, and the modification of the user interface to enhance the user experience, particularly for low-vision users and mobile platforms. Furthermore, they focused on the display of resource states, health status, and health reports, including changes to the presentation of resource attributes, all while maintaining the existing codebase.
cloudcloud-nativedistributed-systemsdotnetdotnet-core
dotnet/project-system
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
The .NET Project System for Visual Studio
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:169 reviews, 135 commits, 141 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Adam's contributions involve modifications to the project system within Visual Studio, specifically related to exposing namespace imports for C# projects. This includes code changes in multiple files, such as tests and source code files related to the automation of project system. The modifications expose namespace imports to csharp.
dotnetvisual-studio-extensionfsprojcsprojfsharp
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