Ankit Jain
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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RockstarAnkit Jain is a Senior Software Engineer in Boston with 21 years of experience specializing in build systems, automation, and backend engineering across the .NET and Mono ecosystems. At Microsoft and in prominent open-source projects like dotnet/msbuild, dotnet/aspnetcore, and mono, he has driven migration from legacy build tools to modern MSBuild, hardened CI/test infrastructure, and streamlined Wasm and mobile build workflows. He blends deep platform knowledge (kernel and runtime experience from SUSE/Novell and Mono) with practical DevOps skills, frequently fixing flaky tests, improving build reliability, and enabling reproducible benchmarking. Notably, his contributions to widely used repos such as dotnet/macios and BenchmarkDotNet reveal a focus on cross-platform build automation and diagnostics that quietly accelerate developer productivity.
21 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
English, Hindi
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Github contributions (5)
dotnet/aspire
Jan 2024 - Apr 2025
Tools, templates, and packages to accelerate building observable, production-ready apps
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 772 reviews, 413 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Ankit focused on improving the testing infrastructure and build processes for the project. Their work involved refactoring tests to use testcontainers for various databases like Redis, PostgreSQL, and MySQL, enhancing test reliability. They also added support for running tests on the helix environment, including setting up the necessary tooling and environment variables. Additionally, they streamlined the build process by removing workarounds and optimizing the installation of SDK and workload dependencies for tests.
cloudcloud-nativedistributed-systemsdotnetdotnet-core
mono/mono
Apr 2005 - Aug 2020
Mono open source ECMA CLI, C# and .NET implementation.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:1280 commits, 344 PRs, 117 pushes in 15 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Ankit primarily contributed to the Mono project by modifying and enhancing the xbuild tool, which is a build system implementation. They focused on improving the build process by addressing issues related to project dependencies, resource handling, and condition parsing. Additionally, the user implemented features, fixed bugs, and added support for features like before/after targets, and added new reserved properties.
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