Richard Lander
Principal Program Manager -- .NET Core at Microsoft
Bellevue, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolRichard Lander is a Principal Program Manager on the .NET Core team at Microsoft with over 12 years of experience building runtime features, CLI tooling, container and ARM/IoT support for .NET. He combines deep platform expertise—from CLR assembly loading to modern .NET containerization—with hands-on contributions to high-profile open source projects like dotnet-docker and the TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks. Comfortable across backend, DevOps and embedded scenarios, he has shipped runtime features, tooling (dotnet-runtimeinfo, dependadotnet), and Docker samples that improved testing and deployment for the ecosystem. A pragmatic maintainer, he’s fixed code-quality issues in projects such as Jellyfin and helped migrate images to Microsoft Container Registry, showing a focus on long-term stability and build reliability. Based in Bellevue, WA, he balances technical leadership with public speaking and community engagement, and outside work is an avid trail runner and family person. An unexpected detail: his background includes early-career work on XML tooling and even commercial beekeeping, reflecting a wide-ranging practical curiosity.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Arts, English + Computer Science, Arts, English + Computer Science at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (36)
unit-testing10
docker10
net10
dotnet-new10
dotnet10
asp-net-core10
spi10
containerization10
dockers10
cicd10
netframework10
asp-net10
iot10
sys10
dockerfile10
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
dotnet/dotnet-docker-samples
Sep 2016 - Jan 2018
The .NET Core Docker samples have moved to https://github.com/dotnet/dotnet-docker/tree/master/samples
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:41 commits, 33 PRs, 82 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Richard primarily focused on enhancing the .NET Core Docker samples. Their contributions included updating the samples for .NET Core 2.0, improving the environment information, and adding unit testing to the development sample. They also simplified code and READMEs and added specific Dockerfile updates, indicative of a focus on building, testing and deploying .NET applications within Docker containers.
dockerdotnet
dotnet/iot
Oct 2018 - Jan 2023
This repo includes .NET Core implementations for various IoT boards, chips, displays and PCBs.
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:105 reviews, 73 commits, 84 PRs in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Richard contributed to the .NET Core implementation for various IoT boards by adding initial samples. These samples demonstrated the use of System.Devices.Gpio library to control GPIO pins, read values and the use of SPI communication to read data from an MCP3008 ADC. The user also refactored and updated the timing values within the program loop and added a volume control using a trimpot sensor. Furthermore, the user added a binary clock example using the MBI5027 driver.
dotnetiot
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