Justin Anderson
Recruiter at Microsoft
Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex United States
Summary
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RockstarJustin Anderson is a recruiter at Microsoft with a decade of engineering experience focused on .NET diagnostics, developer tooling, and backend systems. He pairs hands-on expertise in C#/.NET and C++ with practical DevOps work, contributing to high-profile projects like dotnet/diagnostics, dotnet-monitor, and the .NET runtime and Docker images. His open-source contributions show deep attention to developer experience—refactoring APIs to OpenAPI, adding GC dump and tracing endpoints, and hardening monitoring/authentication and logging. Justin bridges engineering and hiring, understanding both the technical nuances of runtime diagnostics and the skills that make teams productive. Based in the Dallas–Fort Worth area, he’s expanding his toolset beyond .NET while continuing to shape diagnostic tooling used broadly across the .NET ecosystem.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (30)
kestrel10
api-rest10
docker10
c-language10
diagnostic-tool10
api-design10
restful-api10
testing10
net10
dotnet10
asp-net-core10
structured-logging10
dockers10
asp-net10
dotnet-core10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dotnet/dotnet-monitor
Feb 2021 - Jan 2023
This repository contains the source code for .NET Monitor - a tool that allows you to gather diagnostic data from running applications using HTTP endpoints
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3665 reviews, 572 commits, 3402 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Justin focused on improving the .NET Monitor tool by addressing address binding failures, incorporating structured logging, and resolving authentication configuration issues. Their contributions included moving existing code to use structured logging, adding logging for invalid address cases, and refactoring code related to authentication. The user updated the code base with secure versions of packages, refactoring and adding code to capture and utilize the application settings.
dotnet
dotnet/diagnostics
Apr 2020 - Oct 2022
This repository contains the source code for various .NET Core runtime diagnostic tools and documents.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:238 reviews, 61 commits, 128 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Justin primarily focused on enhancing the dotnet/diagnostics repository, particularly improving the diagnostic tools and REST server capabilities. Their contributions included refactoring the DiagController to align with OpenAPI specifications, replacing duration parameters with TimeSpan objects, and adding support for GC dump functionality. Furthermore, the user worked on unifying and adding new trace endpoints, adding custom tracing configurations, and implementing various egress options for storing and retrieving diagnostic data.
diagnostic-tooldotnet
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