David Fowler

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Bellevue, Washington, United States18 yrs 4 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Expert in .NET and cloud technologies.
  • Led development of SignalR and Azure services.
  • Architected next-gen web frameworks at Microsoft.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS architect with extensive experience in cloud and web technologies.

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C#JavaScriptASP.NETSoftware DesignSoftware DevelopmentWeb DevelopmentMicrosoft SQL ServerGit.NETWeb ServicesJavaLINQC++Computer ScienceScrum

About

Passionate software engineer that loves learning new things and writing lots of code.

Experience

18 yrs 4 mos
Total Experience
18 yrs 4 mos
Average Tenure
18 yrs 4 mos
Current Experience

Microsoft

11 roles

Distinguished Engineer

Promoted

Mar 2023Present · 3 yrs 2 mos

  • Simplifying modern app development with Aspire (https://aspire.dev)

Partner Software Architect

Mar 2019Present · 7 yrs 2 mos

  • I'm an Architect on the .NET team responsible for the design and implementation our server and cloud technology.

Principal Software Architect

Promoted

Jun 2016Present · 9 yrs 11 mos

  • I work on the design of .NET Core and ASP.NET Core, our new cross platform developer framework for building web applications and microservice applications.
  • I also work on the Azure SignalR Service, a scalable service for running real time web/mobile/iot applications in the cloud.

Principal SDE

Jan 2014Jan 2017 · 3 yrs

  • I was one of the architects on next generation web framework on the .NET platform (originally DNX now ASP.NET Core). This extremely large effort consisted of re-designing experiences from the ground up for cross platform. This meant re-shaping the developer and deployment experience for web applications and services.

Senior SDE

Jan 2013Jan 2014 · 1 yr

  • Co-creator and lead developer for SignalR. SignalR started off as a side project and turned into a Microsoft product. As part of that effort, I was a technical lead/architect on the team.

Senior SDE

Jan 2011Jan 2013 · 2 yrs

  • Founding engineer on the git deployment engine for Azure App Service. (https://github.com/projectkudu/kudu). Made "git push azure master"​ a reality.

SDE II

Promoted

Jan 2010Jan 2011 · 1 yr

  • Co-creator and founding developer for NuGet package manager. Designed and implemented the dependency management engine for the core NuGet as well as several other features such as the initial NuGet server implementation.

SDE II

Jan 2009Jan 2010 · 1 yr

  • Implemented several features in the ASP.NET WebPages framework. These include (but are not limited to):
  • The Data API (WebMatrix.Data)
  • The JSON API
  • The Administrative control panel

SDE

Jul 2008Jan 2009 · 6 mos

  • Worked on ASP.NET DynamicData and WebForms. I was responsible for adding EntityFramework inheritance support to DynamicData and implementing a new QueryableDataSource type in the .NET Framework. I was also responsible for the various data controls in ASP.NET (GridView, ListView, Repeater).

Software Design Engineer Intern

May 2007Aug 2007 · 3 mos

  • Worked on tool that is used for API review. Framework Design Studio http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/fds. Ported tool to WPF and implemented the commenting feature.

Software Design Engineer in Test Intern

May 2006Aug 2006 · 3 mos

  • Wrote the initial prototype test framework for automating ASP.NET pages. Now known as Lightweight Test Automation Framework for ASP.NET ( https://ltaf.codeplex.com/)

Education

Florida Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Science — Computer Science

Jan 2005Jan 2008

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