Devendar Reddy is a Senior Software Engineer with over a decade of experience designing and delivering real-time, distributed, and multi-threaded applications, currently shaping Windows Forms and ClickOnce features in the .NET Framework at Microsoft. He combines deep hands-on engineering—modernizing WinForms rendering, porting legacy Toolbox and System.Drawing code, and improving DPI compatibility—with international team leadership, managing vendor teams in China and Russia to validate and fix customer issues. Previously a Technical Lead at TCS, he led client-facing projects end-to-end, earning rapid promotions and consistent customer satisfaction. Devendar is pursuing an MS in Information Management (Data Science & BI) at the University of Washington, reflecting a move to pair systems engineering with data-driven decision making. His background uniquely blends enterprise-scale product development, legacy modernization, and cross-cultural collaboration in desktop UI frameworks.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Data Science and Business Intelligence, Master of Science - MS, Data Science and Business Intelligence at University of Washington
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad
Windows Forms is a .NET UI framework for building Windows desktop applications.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:2394 reviews, 359 commits, 1549 PRs in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Devendar primarily contributed to the WinForms repository by porting legacy code from other repositories, specifically related to the Toolbox and System.Drawing packages. These changes involved refactoring code, fixing tests, and updating internal API calls. Additionally, the user modernized WinForms images and refactored code to enhance the framework's UI rendering, ensuring compatibility with newer DPI settings. The contributions reflect a focus on improving the design-time and runtime experience within the WinForms framework.
Windows Forms is a .NET Core UI framework for building Windows desktop applications.
Contributions:4 PRs, 85 pushes, 71 branches in 2 years 4 months
dotnetuwpwindows-desktopwindowsui-framework
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Devendar Reddy - Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft