Darren Hoehna
Business Owner at Microsoft
Everett, Washington, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolDarren Hoehna is a software engineer with 11 years of experience who blends deep systems-level Windows development with entrepreneurial instincts, currently contributing to Microsoft's high-profile Windows App SDK and DevHome projects. He specializes in environment management and runtime integration—work that connects tiny, delicate code changes to large upstream and downstream systems—and has shipped features used across Windows desktop apps. Darren pairs backend C++/.NET expertise and big-data pipeline experience (Spark/Scala, HDInsight) with practical tooling that reduces deployment friction. An entrepreneur and creator, he streams and makes educational Haskell videos under ThatProgrammingGuy, and has launched two startups, one of which is in its infancy. Colleagues describe him as a developer with compassion who communicates well across teams and thrives in startup-like, cross-functional environments.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Shoreline Community CollegeComputer Science, Computer Science at University of Washington, Bothell
English
Stackoverflow
269reputation
72kreached
5answers
29questions
Github Skills (13)
desktop10
windows10
c-language10
cpp10
csharp10
cprogramming-language10
dotnet-core10
azure-resource-manager6
powershell6
ssis6
asp-net6
azure6
android-activity6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/WindowsAppSDK
Aug 2021 - Oct 2022
The Windows App SDK empowers all Windows desktop apps with modern Windows UI, APIs, and platform features, including back-compat support, shipped via NuGet.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:190 reviews, 19 commits, 47 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Darren primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the Windows App SDK, focusing on environment manager functionality. Their work involved implementing features for managing environment variables, including setting, getting, and manipulating the PATH and PATHEXT variables. They also added testing, logging, and projection for .NET and C# environments.
desktop-appswindows-10windows-11windows-app-sdkwindows-app
dhoehna/MSIX-PackageSupportFramework
Mar 2019 - Sep 2019
The Package Support Framework (PSF) is a kit for applying compatibility fixes to packaged desktop applications.
Contributions:78 PRs, 212 pushes, 15 branches in 6 months
fixespsfdesktop-applicationsdesktopcompatibility
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.