Alvin Ashcraft
Senior Content Developer at Microsoft
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.
10 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
EHSBA Economics, BA Economics at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (108)
xaml10
windows10
uno10
microsoft-store10
fsharp10
wpf10
cpp10
dotnet10
windows-app-sdk10
api10
sdk10
uwp-apps10
winrt10
color-picker10
winui10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
alvinashcraft/speaking
Jan 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 109 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 1 month
PacktPublishing/-Learn-WinUI-3.0
Mar 2020 - Apr 2022
Learn WinUI 3.0, published by Packt
Contributions:1 review, 86 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 1 month
windowspacktcsharpwinuipublished
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