Brennan Conroy
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Woodinville, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrennan Conroy is a software engineer with 11 years at Microsoft focused on building and hardening ASP.NET Core, SignalR, and related .NET infrastructure. He combines deep backend expertise—contributing to core projects like ASP.NET Core, EF Core, and the .NET runtime—with hands-on full-stack and testing work, including SignalR scenarios and Razor tooling. Brennan’s contributions frequently center on logging, DI, hosting, and diagnostics, improving observability and maintainability across high-profile Microsoft repos. Based in Woodinville, WA, he’s known for pragmatic refactors and API work that quietly reduce friction for thousands of .NET developers. An interesting detail: beyond production code he’s improved benchmark and test suites, showing a strong emphasis on reliability and measurable performance.
11 years of coding experience
Digipen Institute of Technology
Github Skills (72)
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performance-analytics10
testing10
http10
databases10
websocket10
asp-net-core10
asp-net10
entity-framework10
namespaces10
refactoring10
web-development10
cloud-native10
razor10
develop10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
aspnet/Logging
Dec 2014 - Oct 2018
Common logging abstractions and a few implementations
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:63 commits, 108 PRs, 194 pushes in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Brennan primarily contributed to the internal structure and interfaces of the logging system. Their work involved refactoring and moving classes and methods between namespaces and assemblies to improve organization. They updated and added extension methods for logging, introducing new formatted logging capabilities, and also worked on changes related to the internal structure of the logging framework. These changes include renaming and moving formatter classes and methods to increase efficiency.
implementationsnetstandard20loggerstructured-logginglogging
aspnet/Entropy
Feb 2015 - Mar 2017
A chaotic experimental playground for new features and ideas - check here for small and simple samples for individual features.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 14 PRs, 36 pushes in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Brennan primarily contributed to the project by implementing dependency injection (DI) API changes, and reacting to file provider namespace changes. They also addressed merge requests, fixing samples and tests. Their work involved modifying various files, including module-related files and startup files in the context of the .NET framework.
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