Ryland Alaniz
Software Development Engineer 2 at Microsoft
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarRyland Alaniz is a Software Development Engineer II at Microsoft with seven years of experience building and improving Windows desktop frameworks and tooling. He contributes to high-profile open-source projects like dotnet/wpf and the Windows Community Toolkit, focusing on XAML parsing, build-time source generation, and cross-technology hosting and focus behaviors. At Microsoft he has shipped updates that improve WPF sample mult-targeting and ARM64 support, and implemented practical workarounds to make UWP XAML interoperate more reliably with WinForms and WPF. Ryland combines back-end compiler- and build-process expertise with full-stack UI experience, making him effective at solving subtle integration and runtime issues. Based in Bellevue, WA, he brings a pragmatic attention to engineering details that quietly reduces developer friction for Windows app authors.
7 years of coding experience
Github Skills (22)
xaml10
msbuild10
uwp10
net10
dotnet10
winui10
windows-forms10
asp-net10
dotnet-core10
wpf10
csharp10
net-sdk9
netframework9
mvvm9
dotnet-new9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/WPF-Samples
Oct 2018 - Jul 2021
Repository for WPF related samples
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 33 commits, 39 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Ryland primarily contributed to the WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) samples repository by adding and updating code samples related to WPF concepts and features. They added multi-targeted samples for .NET Framework and .NET Core. Additionally, the user updated existing samples and projects, including those related to the WPF Desktop Application Walkthrough, and the localization tool (LocBaml). They also modified the build configuration and updated the samples for ARM64 architecture.
xamldotnetcsharpwpf
dotnet/wpf
Mar 2019 - Oct 2021
WPF is a .NET Core UI framework for building Windows desktop applications.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:161 reviews, 309 commits, 445 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Ryland primarily contributed to the WPF framework, as indicated by the commit messages and code changes. The user's work involved modifying XAML parsing and compilation processes, specifically addressing issues related to markup compiler functionality. These changes included modifications to temporary project generation, NuGet package reference handling, and source generator support, demonstrating a focus on build process improvements.
xamldotnetuwpwindows-desktopwindows
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