Summary
Allen Scharfenberg is a Microsoft .NET Architect with 11+ years of experience designing and delivering enterprise-grade solutions across government, public health, financial, and insurance sectors. He blends deep hands-on expertise in .NET (Framework/Core/5-7), C#, EF, Azure, microservices and ALM with a pragmatic focus on Agile, DevOps and test-driven practices to accelerate delivery and reduce technical debt. Allen has a track record of founding and leading internal governance bodies (Developer, Architecture, and DevOps workgroups) to codify standards and repeatable solutions that scale across organizations. He pairs architecture-level thinking—DDD, SOA, n-tier design—with developer empathy, mentoring teams on process, tooling and quality assurance. Based in Springfield, Illinois, he’s equally at home optimizing CI/CD pipelines and shipping UX-driven ASP.NET/Blazor interfaces, and his long-standing community leadership of a .NET user group reflects a commitment to knowledge sharing beyond the codebase.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Virden High School
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 4.0 in major, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 4.0 in major at Knox College
English