Martin Ullrich is a Senior Technical Specialist with 12 years of hands-on experience designing cloud-native and .NET solutions, now focused on Azure Application Innovation at Microsoft from Vienna. He has a strong background in consulting and software architecture from roles at Tietoevry and earlier engineering positions, and has taught software topics as a lecturer at Fachhochschule Technikum Wien. Martin contributes to high-profile open-source work on the dotnet/msbuild codebase, improving build features and test automation that affect .NET and Visual Studio build tooling. He combines deep backend engineering and CI/build-system expertise with practical cloud migration and architecture skills, making him comfortable from low-level debugging to large-scale cloud design. A lifelong learner and community-minded presenter, he frequently shares insights at meetups, conferences and online forums. Colleagues describe him as the kind of engineer who “pokes into software to find out where it hurts,” turning curiosity into reliable, production-grade fixes.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Information Systems Management, Master of Science - MS Information Systems Management at Fachhochschule Technikum Wien
The Microsoft Build Engine (MSBuild) is the build platform for .NET and Visual Studio.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Contributions:12 commits, 15 PRs, 254 comments in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Martin primarily contributed to the MSBuild codebase by implementing new features and fixing bugs related to build processes. They worked on integrating auto-imported directory build files, modifying code generation for header comments, and incorporating the GetAssemblyIdentity task into the netstandard2.0 build. In addition, they made changes to item definitions and resolved issues within the build system.
Simple Git prerelease versioning integrated into SDK-based msbuild projects
Contributions:22 commits, 13 PRs, 18 pushes in 2 years 7 months
simple-gitintegratedmsbuildsdkversioning
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