Tony Goodhew
Company Owner at The Schnauzer Group LLC
Renton, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarTony Goodhew is a seasoned technology strategist and company owner with a long history of shaping developer experiences at Microsoft and beyond. With three decades of association with Microsoft technologies—including early influence as the first Product Manager for C# and extensive work on Visual Studio—he blends product vision, partner enablement, and hands-on engineering. He now leads The Schnauzer Group, delivering IoT firmware and Windows IoT deployments while collaborating with Microsoft on quantum and AI-for-science demos for senior leadership. An active open-source contributor, he has modernized OneDrive integration in the widely used Windows Community Toolkit, demonstrating full-stack skills across XAML, C#, and SDK migrations. Based in Renton, WA, Tony combines senior communications and program management experience with a practical developer’s instinct to turn complex platform capabilities into compelling demos and partner solutions.
11 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (10)
uwp10
net10
asp-net10
dotnet10
csharp10
onedrive10
xaml10
dotnet-core10
mvvm8
windows-app-sdk6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
CommunityToolkit/WindowsCommunityToolkit
Mar 2018 - Apr 2018
The Windows Community Toolkit is a collection of helpers, extensions, and custom controls. It simplifies and demonstrates common developer tasks building .NET apps with UWP and the Windows App SDK / WinUI 3 for Windows 10 and Windows 11. The toolkit is part of the .NET Foundation.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 13 PRs, 50 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Tony's contributions primarily revolved around refactoring and updating the OneDrive service integration within the Windows Community Toolkit. Their work included removing references to older OneDrive SDK versions, integrating newer versions and modifying code related to the OneDrive sample app. The changes involved modifying XAML, C# files, and project files to support features like logging in, navigating folders, and interacting with OneDrive services. These updates enhance the usability of OneDrive-related features within the Toolkit.
mvvmwindows-sdkc-sharpcustom-controlswindows-10
TGoodhew/GPIBUtils
Sep 2016 - Nov 2022
Contributions:75 commits, 5 PRs, 73 pushes in 6 years 2 months
gpibutils
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