Mike Lorbetske is a Distinguished Engineer with over two decades of hands-on experience designing multi-tiered systems from hardware to user interface and running an independent consulting practice since 2000. He combines deep Microsoft .NET, C#, and MS-SQL expertise with broad server architecture and database design skills, having led architecture and performance teams at Syndigo and engineering at Microsoft. Mike is comfortable across the stack—writing SSRS reports, porting tooling to .NET Core, and contributing backend improvements to flagship open-source projects like ASP.NET Core and the dotnet templating engine. His career blends product-minded consulting with enterprise leadership, delivering tailor-fit solutions and scalable platform improvements. Based in Milwaukee, he brings a rare mix of low-level systems perspective and pragmatic delivery—evident in work that fixed subtle null-reference bugs and improved HTTP REPL tooling for cross-platform scenarios.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics at Michigan Technological University
Mathematics, Mathematics at Nicolet Area Technical College
Three Lakes High School
Mathematics, Mathematics at University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
This repo contains the Template Engine which is used by dotnet new
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Contributions:1 release, 1056 commits, 1434 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Mike appears to have been actively involved in maintaining and enhancing the template engine used by .NET, with a focus on bug fixes, particularly concerning build systems and template evaluation logic. The commits show work on the core template engine components, including improvements to conditional processing, variable handling, and file operations. They also included refactoring for code quality and the addition of features to support content development.
Repo for ASP.NET experiments that are not ready for a production release
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 2 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Mike's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and stability of the `dotnet-httprepl` tool, which is part of the larger ASP.NET ecosystem. Their work involved refactoring and migrating source code, specifically integrating features like the `dotnet-httprepl`. They addressed key issues by implementing features such as improved JSON pointer resolution and fixing a null reference exception. They also made improvements regarding platform-specific configurations.
asp-netaspdotnetproduction
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Mike Lorbetske - Distinguished Engineer at Beck Technology