Peter Ritchie
Self Employed
Earth, Texas, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Ritchie is an independent IT consultant and software architect with over 25 years of experience designing enterprise-scale systems across finance, insurance, and healthcare. He combines hands-on engineering—creating widely adopted developer tools and Visual Studio extensions, including Pri.LongPath (1.3M+ downloads)—with strategic architecture work like Mortgage as a Service and Rocket API. A former 13-time Microsoft MVP, published author and frequent conference speaker, he excels at raising architectural maturity through governance, coaching, and pragmatic standards. Peter is fluent in .NET, Azure, API design and domain-driven approaches, and has a long track record of shipping tools and analyzers that improve developer productivity and code quality. He’s also an attentive maintainer and doc-focused contributor to prominent projects (e.g., technical writing contributions to microsoft/dotnet-samples), bringing clarity to complex systems and smoothing team onboarding. Practical, curious, and iterative in mindset, he helps organizations modernize legacy landscapes while minimizing disruption and technical debt.
15 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Algonquin College
Stackoverflow
35,629reputation
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821answers
3questions
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Github Skills (30)
exceptions10
multithreading10
winforms10
task-parallel-library10
async-await10
documentation10
converter9
asynchronous9
unit-testing9
netframework9
timer9
windows-phone9
windows9
tcp9
visual-studio9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/dotnet-samples
Jun 2021 - Jun 2021
Contains samples and documentation for libraries and tools of the .NET framework. Pull requests welcome!
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:14 commits, 14 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Peter's contributions primarily focused on fixing spelling, capitalization, and minor grammatical errors within the documentation and code comments of the .NET samples. They updated multiple files, specifically targeting the "Print data" sections and general code descriptions. These edits contribute to improved readability and clarity throughout the project, ensuring consistency and accuracy of the provided examples.
dotnet
peteraritchie/docs.microsoft.com-nuget
Mar 2017 - Apr 2022
Contributions:2 pushes in 5 years 2 months
dotnetcsharpnugetdotnet-core
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