Rob Laduca
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolRob Laduca is a Principal Software Engineer with nine years at Microsoft and a total of over two decades building complex systems across aerospace, finance, and enterprise software. He currently contributes to the .NET WPF UI framework, improving API compatibility, COM handling, and test project structure—work that impacts a widely used Microsoft open-source repo. Rob blends deep systems and UI experience from designing flight‑critical displays and GPU-accelerated image processing to shipping robust desktop frameworks. He is comfortable moving between low-level interoperability fixes and higher-level project architecture, and has a track record of delivering under customer constraints on-site. With a Master's in Computer Science from Binghamton University, he pairs academic rigor with hands-on problem solving that surfaces subtle platform interoperability issues before they reach users.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Computer Science, Masters, Computer Science at Binghamton University
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Github Skills (8)
net10
asp-net10
wpf10
dotnet10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
nuget9
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dotnet/wpf
Nov 2018 - Jun 2020
WPF is a .NET Core UI framework for building Windows desktop applications.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 112 commits, 145 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Rob primarily contributed to the .NET Core UI framework, WPF, by addressing breaking changes from NuGet and updating project structures. They modified XAML files and other project files related to tests. Additionally, they made a change to remove a workaround for a .NET core issue. They also improved COM object handling and API compatibility.
coreuidotnetwindowswindows-desktopwpf
FriendsTmCo/wpf
Oct 2019 - Apr 2020
WPF is a .NET Core UI framework for building Windows desktop applications.
Contributions:5 commits in 5 months
coreuidotnetwindowswindows-desktopwpf
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