Phil Henning is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of professional experience, based in Orlando and currently owning multiple feature areas within Visual Studio at Microsoft. He specializes in .NET template creation and tooling, Azure Functions integration, and API tooling such as Endpoints Explorer and an HTTP REST editor, with earlier work on WCF and MVC templates. Phil contributes to the prominent dotnet/templating engine—updating target frameworks, improving build scripts, and adding localization—demonstrating a focus on maintainability and developer experience in widely used tooling. His background spans long-term product ownership at Microsoft and early systems work on Major BBS/Worldgroup, reflecting deep practical knowledge of developer platforms and backward-compatible evolution.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Penn State University
English
Stackoverflow
Stats
46reputation
467reached
1answer
0questions
Github Skills (11)
net10
asp-net10
dotnet-new10
dotnet10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
msbuild9
build-automation9
powershell8
azure-web-app-service6
visual-studio6
Programming languages (7)
C#PowerShellJavaScriptHTMLF#MarkdownRich Text Format
This repo contains the Template Engine which is used by dotnet new
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:26 reviews, 100 commits, 127 PRs in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Phil primarily focused on updating and modifying the project's template engine, which is used by `dotnet new`. Their work involved removing obsolete target framework versions, ensuring the templates are up-to-date. The user also made improvements to the build scripts and merged localization support. These changes indicate a focus on the project's core functionality and maintainability.
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.
Request Free Trial
Phil Henning - Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft