Rockford Lhotka
VP Of Strategy
Eden Prairie, Minnesota, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolRockford Lhotka is a veteran software architect and executive who currently shapes strategy for Xebia Microsoft Services while running Marimer LLC, the steward of the widely used CSLA .NET open-source framework he created. With over three decades of hands-on experience across architecture, framework design, distributed systems, cloud and container technologies, he combines deep technical craftsmanship with executive leadership as a former CTO and long-time technology evangelist. Rockford is an active author and global conference speaker, and his role as a Microsoft Regional Director and MVP reflects his influence in the developer community. He also contributes to humanitarian-focused open source work—such as back-end testing and QA for the allReady disaster-preparedness project—demonstrating a commitment to quality and social impact. Based in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, he blends practical engineering rigor with strategic vision to help organizations build scalable, maintainable, and secure software.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Bemidji State UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at United States Air Force Academy
Stackoverflow
862reputation
53kreached
39answers
0questions
Github Skills (17)
unit-testing10
ready10
asp-net-core10
dotnet-core10
csharp10
test-automation10
asp-net8
disaster-recovery7
incident-response7
netcore6
logging6
nuget-package6
vbnet6
csla6
visual-studio6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
HTBox/allReady
Nov 2015 - Nov 2015
This repo contains the code for allReady, an open-source solution focused on increasing awareness, efficiency and impact of preparedness campaigns as they are delivered by humanitarian and disaster response organizations in local communities.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer/Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer/Test Automation EngineerContributions:35 commits, 7 PRs, 2 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Rockford primarily contributed to the back-end of the "allReady" project by adding and modifying tests related to activity details, campaign details, and other core functionalities. Their work included refactoring existing test code, creating new tests to cover different scenarios like deleting and editing activities, and ensuring the system behaved as expected. They also updated test initialization schemes and refactored test setup to improve consistency. This indicates a focus on quality assurance and back-end development within the project.
awarenesspreparednesscampaignsc-sharporganizations
MarimerLLC/Bxf
Sep 2015 - May 2021
Basic Xaml Framework
Contributions:21 commits, 5 PRs, 15 pushes in 5 years 9 months
xamlnim-langtrinitycoredatabase-accessraku
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.