Ian Hays
United States
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Top SchoolIan Hays is a software engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in C#/.NET, backend API design, and cross-platform systems engineering. He spent multiple roles at Microsoft contributing to .NET libraries (IO, Compression, Collections) and owning the public API/SDK for Azure DevTest Labs, blending open-source development with customer-driven product work. Ian has deep practical knowledge of .NET internals—having authored cross-platform implementations—and focuses on performance, modularity, and futureproof API design. He’s experienced building scalable, containerized backend systems and architecting distributed services with fault tolerance and adaptive scaling. A University of Texas CS graduate, Ian pairs research-grade attention to implementation details with hands-on delivery for enterprise and educational cloud scenarios. Notably, his work bridges OSS visibility on GitHub with direct customer migration and support for complex Azure adoption efforts.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Senior, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Senior at The University of Texas at Austin
English
Github Skills (73)
nuget10
low-level10
fsharp10
dotnet-cli10
cil10
dotnet10
sdk10
rest10
azure10
cli-tools10
coreclr10
installer10
garbage10
csharp10
jit10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ianhays/corefx
Jun 2015 - Jun 2018
This repo contains the .NET Core foundational libraries, called CoreFX. It includes classes for collections, file systems, console, XML, async and many others.
Contributions:1310 pushes, 583 branches, 19 comments in 3 years
dotnetfile-systemsconsolexmlnet-core
ianhays/coreclr
Jul 2015 - Apr 2018
Contributions:80 pushes, 32 branches in 2 years 9 months
dotnetjitruntimedata-typescompiler
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