Brian Lagunas
Director Of Product Development at Infragistics
Boise, Idaho, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Lagunas is a product and engineering leader with 11 years at Infragistics, now serving as Director of Product Development, who blends hands-on framework-level engineering with product strategy. A former U.S. Army squad leader turned software engineer, he brings disciplined leadership and a focus on developer experience to UI and XAML ecosystems. He is the owner of Prism, a longtime Microsoft MVP and Xamarin MVP, and has contributed notable improvements to widely used projects like Microsoft XamlBehaviors and Prism sample libraries. Brian has taught as a Pluralsight author and speaks and trains globally, translating complex UI patterns into practical guidance for teams. Based in Boise, he pairs deep WPF/Xamarin expertise with product ownership experience, shipping modular, testable architectures that empower other developers. One less obvious strength: he repeatedly bridges community-facing open-source work with internal product roadmaps, ensuring external contributions inform commercial feature direction.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Japanese Studies, Japanese Studies at Boise State UniversityBachelor's Degree Software Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Software Engineering at ITT Technical Institute-Boise
Japanese
Github Skills (16)
sample-rate10
unit-testing10
asp-net10
behavior10
net10
sample-size10
xamarin10
wpf10
dotnet10
xamarin-forms10
csharp10
prism10
xaml10
sample-data10
dotnet-core10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
PrismLibrary/Prism-Samples-Forms
Jun 2015 - Jun 2021
Samples that demonstrate how to use various Prism features with Xamarin.Forms
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 27 commits, 18 PRs in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Brian contributed to the development of Xamarin.Forms samples. Their work involved adding and upgrading samples, including the "UseDependencyService", "UsingNavigationPageProvider", "IPageDialogService", and "CompositeCommands" examples. They upgraded the projects to use more recent Prism.Forms versions and fixed missing namespaces.
xamarinprismxamarin-forms
microsoft/XamlBehaviorsWpf
Dec 2018 - Dec 2019
Home for WPF XAML Behaviors on GitHub.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 9 reviews, 24 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Brian primarily contributed to the `InvokeCommandAction` functionality within the `microsoft/xamlbehaviorswpf` repository. Their work involved extending the action to handle event arguments more effectively, including the addition of `EventArgsConverter`, `EventArgsConverterParameter`, and `EventArgsParameterPath` properties. They also integrated unit tests to validate the new features and made minor adjustments to existing code and comments. Additionally, the user updated the `DataTrigger` to evaluate initial value on element load.
wpfxaml
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