Michael Hansen
General Manager, Medical Imaging, Health Futures at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Hansen is a technology and medical-imaging leader with nine years of industry experience driving AI‑enabled, cloud‑native diagnostic imaging initiatives at Microsoft Health Futures. He builds interdisciplinary teams that translate research prototypes—like streaming raw device data and cloud reconstruction engines—into practical products, and recently leads efforts to make high‑quality MRI accessible through software‑defined systems. Equally hands‑on, he contributes to major open‑source UI and .NET projects (Windows Community Toolkit, PWABuilder, Microsoft Graph Toolkit) and maintains test coverage for the .NET Community Toolkit, reflecting a developer-first approach to reliability. His background spans academia, NIH, and industry, combining a PhD in biomedical engineering with an MBA and a knack for shipping both low‑level MRI innovations and developer-facing tooling. A less obvious strength: he blends clinical collaborations and hyperscaler integrations to create deployment paths that evidence real‑world impact rather than only papers or prototypes.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Medicine (Biomedical Engineering), PhD, Medicine (Biomedical Engineering) at Aarhus UniversityMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at UW Foster School of Business
English, Danish, German
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
CommunityToolkit/WindowsCommunityToolkit
Aug 2017 - Nov 2022
The Windows Community Toolkit is a collection of helpers, extensions, and custom controls. It simplifies and demonstrates common developer tasks building .NET apps with UWP and the Windows App SDK / WinUI 3 for Windows 10 and Windows 11. The toolkit is part of the .NET Foundation.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:19 releases, 788 reviews, 1380 commits in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily worked on the UI for the Windows Community Toolkit, focusing on creating, updating, and improving UI elements. Their commits include modifications to the TokenizingTextBox control to allow for a proper display of content, as well as improvements to the visual aspect of the control. They also added a ConstrainedBox to implement the proper presentation for the UI and fixed issues around the loading of the images.
mvvmwindows-sdkc-sharpcustom-controlswindows-10
CommunityToolkit/dotnet
Feb 2018 - Sep 2022
.NET Community Toolkit is a collection of helpers and APIs that work for all .NET developers and are agnostic of any specific UI platform. The toolkit is maintained and published by Microsoft, and part of the .NET Foundation.
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:3 releases, 21 reviews, 102 commits in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on writing unit tests for the .NET Community Toolkit, specifically targeting array extensions and markup extensions. They implemented tests for various array extension methods like `Fill`, `GetColumn`, and `ToArrayString`, ensuring the correct behavior of these utilities. Additionally, the user created and tested a `NullableBoolMarkupExtension` and addressed DependencyProperty scenarios for thorough testing. The contributions improve the reliability of the toolkit by expanding the test coverage.
netframeworkagnosticmvvmmauic-sharp
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