Alvin Ashcraft
Senior Content Developer at Packt
Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolAlvin Ashcraft is a senior content developer and veteran Microsoft-stack engineer with over two decades of hands-on experience building clinical healthcare, manufacturing, and insurance software using C#, .NET, WPF/UWP, XAML and SQL Server. Now at Microsoft, he combines deep platform expertise with developer-focused documentation and community leadership—organizing TechBash, serving on Packt’s .NET advisory board, and blogging to demystify complex topics. His career blends product engineering and architecture work (including GraphQL, Xamarin, .NET Core modernization and performance optimization) with evangelism and teaching, reflecting a preference for technical mentorship over pure management. Known for shipping major clinical application releases and improving performance through async/parallel patterns, he brings pragmatic design sense and a knack for translating intricate systems into approachable guidance.
11 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
EHSBA, Economics, BA, Economics at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania
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Github Skills (119)
xaml10
windows10
fsharp10
wpf10
command-palette10
cpp10
copilot10
directml10
windows-application10
dotnet10
windows-app10
windows-app-sdk10
api10
winrt10
winui10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
alvinashcraft/RssBlogCategorizer
Sep 2025 - Jun 2026
Fetch RSS feeds, auto-categorize posts by technology, and publish directly to WordPress—all from VS Code.
Contributions:10 releases, 27 PRs, 99 pushes in 9 months
rssvscodewordpressbloggingdeveloper-tool
Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C#10 and .NET6 published by packt
Contributions:55 commits, 38 pushes in 6 months
concurrency
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