Will Sugarman
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolWill Sugarman is a Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft with nine years of hands-on experience building cloud-native, high-performance back-end systems. He leads development of the open-source DICOM medical imaging server in Azure Health Data Services, combining ASP.NET Core, .NET 6, AKS and Durable Functions to deliver scalable, compliant PHI storage. Will’s background spans big data streaming and high-availability content APIs at Bing and Microsoft News, giving him deep expertise in designing reliable pipelines and production-grade services. He enjoys decomposing large problems into patterned, maintainable solutions—a habit that traces back to learning Scheme as a freshman. An active contributor to the microsoft/dicom-server repo, he focuses on robust package and metadata hygiene as well as runtime upgrades to keep critical healthcare tooling secure and current. Based in Seattle, he blends engineering leadership with pragmatic, open-source stewardship in regulated domains.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science in Computer Science Computer Science at Rochester Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (12)
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nuget10
dotnet10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
dicom9
dicomweb8
xml8
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/dicom-server
Feb 2021 - Jan 2023
OSS Implementation of DICOMweb standard
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2019 reviews, 209 commits, 943 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Will primarily contributed to updating shared healthcare packages and metadata within the DICOM server implementation. Their work involved bumping version numbers, updating NuGet package metadata and dependencies, and fixing XML doc comments. Furthermore, they updated the .NET Core runtime and ensured build argument consistency. The changes also included minor modifications to core service logic.
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microsoft/healthcare-shared-components
Jan 2021 - Nov 2022
Shared packages used across Microsoft's health care services
Contributions:856 reviews, 47 commits, 646 PRs in 1 year 9 months
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