Mads Torgersen
Program Manager at Microsoft Corporation
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolMads Torgersen is a seasoned program manager and language designer with over a decade at Microsoft leading the C# programming language team, stewarding language design, and maintaining the C# specification. With a PhD in Computer Science and prior experience as an associate professor at the University of Aarhus, he blends deep academic rigor with practical product leadership. He also contributes to the design of TypeScript and Visual Basic, reflecting a rare cross-language perspective within Microsoft’s developer ecosystem. Based in Redmond, he is known for guiding complex language evolution processes, balancing innovation with backwards compatibility. Colleagues rely on him to translate formal language ideas into implementable, industry-ready features.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at Aarhus Universitet
Danish, English
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Github Skills (43)
programming-language10
roslyn10
garbage-collector10
ecma10
primitive10
low-level10
coreclr10
xamarin10
linux10
dotnet10
cil10
cross-platform10
c-programming10
collector10
desktop10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dotnet/csharplang
Jan 2017 - Jan 2023
The official repo for the design of the C# programming language
Contributions:27 reviews, 466 commits, 95 PRs in 6 years 1 month
c-programmingc-programming-languagelanguage-designcsharpprogramming-language
MadsTorgersen/hello-world
Aug 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:4 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 day
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