- I love solving difficult problems
- ⛰️ I've climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro
- 🎧 I've been a DJ "hot-mixing" in night clubs
- 🏎️ I used to drag race my 625hp Mitsubishi 3000GT VR4
- 🔥 My favorite Career Highlight: I spent 3 Black Fridays at Dell helping improving scalability and perforamnce on apps that handled thousands of requests/sec.
- Professionally: Open to new opportunities as a .NET Performance Architect in the Microsoft stack.
- Personal side-projects:
A cross-platform-ready Mermaid diagram editor built with .NET 9 + Avalonia.
.NET Nuget Package to perform XML Normalization, Canonicalization, and Semantic Equivalence (coming soon)
A cross-platform mobile app to track pool chemistry built using .NET MAUI 9 (coming soon)
- Some of the OSS Contributions I've made:
I write about C#, Programming, Design, Architecture, and the internals of Microsoft .NET (when I find time)
- Hacktoberfest 2025 -
- Answer by Dave Black for Search or List all open PRs across multiple specific repositories
- Answer by Dave Black for XML Canonicalization lexicographical ordering
- Canonical XML 2.0 with Namespace PrefixRewrite
- Answer by Dave Black for c# linq xml how to use two prefixes for same namespace
- Answer by Dave Black for is there CLR profiler for .NET 4.0 around?
- for vs. foreach iteration over List<Guid>
- SpanIndexOfBenchmark
- Benchmark comparing for vs foreach on List<int> using .NET 10 x64 vs .NET Framework 4.8.1 x64 RyuJIT vs .NET Framework 4.8.1 x86 LegacyJIT
- Dictionary Lookup Hit vs Miss for Guid vs string
- Dictionary Add with key of type Guid vs string