Laurent Bugnion
Principal Cloud Advocate
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolLaurent Bugnion is a Principal Cloud Advocate at Microsoft with 16 years of experience blending developer advocacy, cloud engineering, and UI/UX expertise from Zurich. He is the creator of the widely used MVVM Light toolkit and has deep roots in the .NET, XAML and Xamarin communities, regularly speaking at major conferences and producing scalable Azure-powered solutions and event infrastructure. At Microsoft he has led labs and learning initiatives, produced video content for Learn TV, and architected automated ingestion and tooling for large event platforms. His background spans hands-on firmware and embedded systems to senior leadership in Europe, giving him a rare mix of low-level engineering discipline and developer community leadership. An underrated strength is his sustained ability to turn conference content and community feedback into production-quality developer tools and automated systems.
16 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Maturity Latin French Literature Philosophy, Maturity Latin French Literature Philosophy at Gymnase du Bugnon, LausanneEcole d'Ingénieur Vaud EIVDSoftware Engineer FH Software engineering (postgrade), Software Engineer FH Software engineering (postgrade) at Fachhochschule Rapperswil
Github Skills (10)
wpf10
windows-phone10
csharp10
silverlight10
xaml10
dotnet-core10
project-template9
user-interface9
xamarin-forms8
netframework7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
lbugnion/mvvmlight
Oct 2009 - Aug 2021
The main purpose of the toolkit is to accelerate the creation and development of MVVM applications in Xamarin.Android, Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Forms, Windows 10 UWP, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Silverlight, Windows Phone.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:310 commits, 5 PRs, 27 pushes in 11 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Laurent primarily worked on project and item template modifications for various frameworks including WPF, Windows Phone, and Silverlight. Their changes involved updating references, adding UI components, and modifying existing XAML and C# code within the templates. The user also updated the project setup by moving the VSIX package to a new location and improved the build automation to copy all DLLs to a _Binaries folder, making it easier to install a new version.
silverlightwindows-presentation-foundationmvvmioswindows-10
timdetering/mvvmlight
Nov 2013 - Apr 2015
Contributions:85 commits in 1 year 5 months
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