Mike Krüger
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Berlin Metropolitan Area Germany
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Top SchoolMike Krüger is a senior software engineer in the Berlin area with 21 years of experience building rich-client and cross-platform .NET tooling, currently contributing to Visual Studio for Mac with a focus on C# editor and language support. He has deep expertise in C#, .NET/Mono and UI toolkits (GTK#, XWT, Windows.Forms), and a track record of refactoring and hardening large IDE codebases such as MonoDevelop and SharpDevelop. Mike is an active open-source maintainer whose work improved editor features like code completion, text layout, and refactoring actions in well-known projects like NRefactory and Refactoring Essentials. Comfortable across Linux, macOS and Windows, he blends systems-level language and parsing skills with pragmatic UI engineering. An unusual strength is his sustained focus on improving developer productivity by simplifying complex code patterns and integrating modern libraries into legacy IDE architectures.
21 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom, Informatik, Diplom, Informatik at Freie Universität Berlin
English
Github Skills (27)
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xamarin10
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
icsharpcode/NRefactory
Jul 2010 - Nov 2017
NRefactory - Refactoring Your C# Code
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:2354 commits, 23 PRs, 271 pushes in 7 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Mike contributed to the refactoring and improvement of the C# code within the `NRefactory` project. They focused on addressing code quality issues by removing redundant code elements and implementing new code actions for simplifying expressions. Their work involved modifying existing code, identifying patterns for simplification, and adding code actions to improve the readability and maintainability of the codebase.
csharprefactoring
mono/monodevelop
May 2007 - Jan 2020
MonoDevelop is a cross platform .NET IDE
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16787 commits, 1250 PRs, 3049 pushes in 12 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Mike's contributions focused on refactoring and improving the code base of the MonoDevelop IDE, specifically dealing with improvements to the C# editor and assembly browser. The user implemented code changes that refactored parts of the IDE to use updated libraries and tools while adding features like code completion for comments. These changes involved adjustments to the code's structure, making the editor more robust and improving the user experience.
dotnetidemonodevelopc-sharp
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