Reuben Bond
Principal Software Development Engineer at Microsoft
Bellevue, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolReuben Bond is a Principal Software Development Engineer with 14 years of experience building and hardening large-scale distributed systems, currently driving core development of the open-source dotnet/orleans framework at Microsoft. He focuses on performance, robustness, and maintainability—contributing deep fixes around async message dispatch, memory management, and shutdown behavior that improve cluster reliability. Reuben also enhances service discovery and production-readiness tools in related projects like dotnet/aspire, showing practical expertise in DNS/SRV providers and race-condition fixes. Based in Bellevue, WA, he blends hands-on systems engineering with a history of shipping massive real-time metrics and identity infrastructure at Azure AD, and he brings a tutor’s patience to mentoring and documentation. An understated strength is his ability to simplify complex runtime behavior (CLR type parsing/rewriting and task handling) so that distributed systems behave predictably in production.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Melbourne
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (44)
asynchronous10
multithreading10
async10
distributed-tracing10
net10
dotnet10
data-serialization10
distributed-systems10
serialization10
netframework10
asp-net10
service-discovery10
performance-optimization10
dotnet-core10
csharp10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
dotnet/orleans
Feb 2015 - Jan 2023
Cloud Native application framework for .NET
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:39 releases, 790 reviews, 1119 commits in 8 years
Contributions summary:Reuben contributed extensively to the core functionality of the Orleans framework, focusing on the internal workings and performance of the system. They implemented features such as a CLR type name parser and rewriter, and modified the core asynchronous task-handling and message-dispatching mechanisms. The user also addressed bugs related to memory management and object disposal, specifically focusing on improving cluster client behavior during shutdown. They appear to be focused on improving the robustness, performance, and maintainability of the Orleans framework.
cloud-nativedotnetactor-modeldistributed-actorsdistributed-systems
microsoft/aspire
Nov 2023 - Oct 2025
Aspire is the tool for code-first, extensible, observable dev and deploy.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:100 reviews, 101 PRs, 265 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Reuben's commits primarily focus on improving service discovery within the Aspire project. They addressed issues like handling the absence of registered resolvers and refactored DNS and DNS SRV providers. Furthermore, they implemented features to propagate original hostnames and fix race conditions within the service endpoint resolver. The contributions demonstrate expertise in enhancing the core functionality and reliability of service discovery mechanisms.
code-firstcloudpythontypescriptaspire
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