Andy Gerlicher
Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Woodinville, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndy Gerlicher is a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft with 11 years of professional experience and over a decade within Microsoft advancing build and tooling reliability. He combines hands-on backend development—contributing bug fixes, race-condition mitigations, and SDK resolver features to the high-profile dotnet/msbuild project—with leadership in delivering large-scale engineering outcomes. Based in Woodinville, WA, he balances technical depth in build systems and code quality with people management and long-term platform evolution. Colleagues rely on him to translate subtle concurrency and encoding issues into robust, test-covered fixes that keep developer workflows stable.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Seattle University
Github Skills (7)
csharp10
msbuild10
dotnet-core10
refactor9
netframework9
refactoring9
unit-testing7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
dotnet/msbuild
Mar 2015 - Aug 2021
The Microsoft Build Engine (MSBuild) is the build platform for .NET and Visual Studio.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 release, 3 reviews, 646 commits in 6 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Andy's contributions focused on bug fixes and enhancements to the MSBuild codebase. These changes involved refactoring and modifying existing code files, including tests. The code changes included correcting for non-ANSI characters in the command and addressing potential race conditions within the build process. The user also added features related to the SDK resolver framework.
build-enginedotnetmsbuildvisual-studiomicrosoft
AndyGerlicher/UpgradeRepo
Jan 2023 - Jan 2025
Contributions:2 reviews, 5 PRs, 10 pushes in 2 years
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