Mike Corsaro
Principal Engineer at Double Dagger Studio
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolMike Corsaro is a Principal Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building desktop and cross-platform applications, currently leading engineering at Double Dagger Studio in San Francisco. He has shipped significant work at Microsoft—porting T4 to .NET Core for Visual Studio and improving Windows support in .NET MAUI by fixing UI bugs and adding controls like TitleBar—and previously strengthened developer tools at Atlassian on Bitbucket and Sourcetree for Windows. His background spans game development and tooling, having shipped multiple Unity titles and built core systems such as AI, procedural level generation, and custom shaders at Monothetic and as a contractor. Mike’s contributions to the high-profile dotnet/maui repo underscore deep expertise in Windows-specific UI internals, testing, and refactoring for maintainability. He blends product-focused engineering with cross-team collaboration (notably with the WinAppSDK team) and a knack for performance and UX improvements in mature codebases. Based in the Bay Area, he combines a game-dev creative mindset with enterprise-grade software craftsmanship.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Multidisciplinary Studies, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Multidisciplinary Studies at Rochester Institute of TechnologyAssociate of Science (A.S.), Computer Science, Associate of Science (A.S.), Computer Science at Onondaga Community College
Github Skills (13)
windows10
maui10
net10
uid10
csharp10
ui-design10
front-end-development10
net-maui10
dotnet-core10
testing9
desktop8
xaml8
mobile7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
dotnet/maui
Feb 2023 - Mar 2025
.NET MAUI is the .NET Multi-platform App UI, a framework for building native device applications spanning mobile, tablet, and desktop.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:159 reviews, 85 PRs, 302 pushes in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Mike primarily contributed to the .NET MAUI framework, focusing on bug fixes and feature enhancements within the Windows platform. Their work included resolving issues in UI components like ShellView and CollectionView, as well as implementing features related to DeviceDisplay and tab bar visibility. They also added new tests and refactored the codebase to improve maintainability. These contributions demonstrate a strong understanding of the cross-platform UI framework and its Windows-specific implementations.
app-platformmauimulti-platformiosmicrosoft
Foda/DiffWit
Mar 2019 - Jul 2021
Contributions:10 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 4 months
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