Ken Schlobohm
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Greater Chicago Area United States
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Top SchoolKen Schlobohm is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of professional experience and a decade-plus background in consulting and architecture, currently building reliable .NET systems at Microsoft from the Greater Chicago Area. He specializes in C#, ASP.NET, systems architecture, and design patterns, and is a vocal advocate for Clean Code and mentoring developers. Ken blends full-stack development with DevOps expertise—contributing to high-profile .NET projects like try-convert and the .NET Upgrade Assistant, and implementing Azure infrastructure automation, App Configuration, Key Vault and Front Door/WAF integrations. His work shows a practical focus on migration tooling, robust integration testing, and production-ready deployment pipelines. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex legacy-app modernization challenges into automated, secure cloud deployments.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
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Github Skills (28)
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msbuild10
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/reliable-web-app-pattern-dotnet
Aug 2022 - Mar 2023
The Reliable Web App Pattern is a set of objectives to help your web application converge on the cloud. This repo contains a reference implementation of a reliable web application for .NET.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:2 releases, 31 reviews, 121 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Ken's commits primarily focus on the infrastructure and deployment aspects of the .NET web application. They made changes to Bicep templates for setting up Azure resources like Application Insights and SQL Database, including configuring autoscaling rules. They also worked on scripts for managing the App Configuration service and Key Vault, demonstrating a strong focus on automating deployment, configuration, and security. Furthermore, the user implemented enhancements related to Azure Front Door and integrated it with Web Application Firewall (WAF).
architectureazd-templatesazureazure-app-configurationazure-app-service
dotnet/upgrade-assistant
Nov 2020 - Jun 2021
A tool to assist developers in upgrading .NET Framework applications to .NET 6 and beyond
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:321 reviews, 55 commits, 43 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Ken primarily contributed to the integration and testing of the .NET Upgrade Assistant tool. Their work included modifying code to address file path issues, moving code between folders, and adding integration test scenarios for VB.NET projects. They also enhanced the tool by incorporating a NuGet reference analyzer, updating startup files, and addressing errors from the try-convert tool. Additionally, they improved the testing suite by implementing more robust checks and fixing integration test failures.
dotnetwindowsnet-frameworkassistc-sharp
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