Ashley Stanton-nurse
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAshley Stanton-nurse is a Principal Software Engineer with 17 years of experience building high-performance cloud and developer tooling, currently contributing to Azure Cosmos DB SDKs and the first Rust SDK for Cosmos at Microsoft. A long-time .NET expert, Ashley has driven core infrastructure across ASP.NET Core, SignalR, EF Core and NuGet while also leading efforts to modernize build systems, logging, and authentication for large-scale services. They blend backend, DevOps, and full-stack skills—shipping features, improving CI/build pipelines, and authoring diagnostics and testing tools—while mentoring teams and shaping architecture. An active open-source contributor, Ashley’s work touches widely used repos (aspnetcore, efcore, NuGet) and includes automation like status reporting and robust deployment/port resilience. Comfortable exploring new ecosystems, they regularly dabble in Rust, TypeScript, C/C++ and have even built a homebrew OS, revealing a knack for low-level systems thinking beyond typical web stacks. Based in Seattle, they combine deep Microsoft platform experience with a practical, quality-focused engineering style.
17 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Simon Fraser University
Github Skills (67)
nuget10
reverse-proxy10
package-management10
testing10
windows10
azure-functions10
authentication10
websocket10
asp-net-core10
asp-net10
code-generation10
entity-framework10
build-automation10
dependency-resolution10
razor10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
NuGet/NuGetGallery
Jun 2012 - Oct 2014
NuGet Gallery is a package repository that powers https://www.nuget.org. Use this repo for reporting NuGet.org issues.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1371 commits, 2 comments in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Ashley was primarily responsible for implementing authentication functionality within the NuGet Gallery project. Their commits focused on the design and implementation of the `AuthenticationService`, including user authentication, password validation, and the creation of session management. They also worked on supporting different types of credentials like API keys, migrating to new password-hashing algorithms, and creating custom claims identities. Additionally, the user created the fundamental structure for the User and authentication process.
nuget-gallerypackage-repositorydotnetnuget
aspnet/SignalR-samples
Apr 2018 - Oct 2018
Samples for ASP.NET Core SignalR
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 13 PRs, 23 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Ashley contributed to the development of multiple client samples for ASP.NET Core SignalR, including Windows Forms, Xamarin (Android, iOS, and Forms), and UWP. The contributions involved creating UI elements, managing connections, and integrating SignalR functionality. The user also updated dependencies and project formats for cross-platform compatibility and compatibility with newer versions of Xamarin and SignalR.
signalr
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