Ryan Preece
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Preece is a Senior Software Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience in the .NET ecosystem, currently building acquisition and retention tooling for Visual Studio at Microsoft. He specialises in mobile and desktop apps, backend systems, cloud engineering (Azure/AWS) and process automation, and has a track record of migrating on-prem systems to cloud-native architectures. A pragmatic DevOps advocate and mentor, he’s led cross-functional teams, embedded Agile practices, and presented at industry conferences including NDC Sydney. His consulting background spans HoloLens, native mobile, microservices on Kubernetes, and complex integrations, reflecting both deep technical breadth and client-facing delivery skills. Based in Redmond, he combines production-grade C# expertise with a penchant for frequent travel and continuous learning.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at RMIT University
Github Skills (38)
visual-studio9
async8
csharp8
group-policy8
dotnet-core7
entity-framework7
database7
powershell6
state-management6
winrt6
powershell-module6
orm6
microsoft-cognitive-services6
schema-migrations6
change-tracking6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/VisualStudioDSC
May 2023 - Apr 2025
DSC resources to simplify state management of installed Visual Studio instances
Contributions:7 releases, 16 reviews, 7 PRs in 1 year 11 months
state-managementvisual-studio
Preecington/WebDinosaurs
Sep 2018 - Jun 2022
JavaScript For Web Dinosaurs
Contributions:1 PR, 11 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 9 months
javascriptdinosaurs
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