Damian Edwards
Redmond, Washington, United States
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RockstarDamian Edwards is a seasoned Software Architect with 17 years of experience, currently working as a PM Architect on the .NET team at Microsoft in Redmond. He blends deep backend expertise in ASP.NET Core hosting, performance benchmarking, and WebHost APIs with practical full‑stack work on Razor Pages, Blazor, and SPA frontends. Damian has a strong track record of improving developer experience—updating templates, refining hosting behaviors, and optimizing request handling and logging for production readiness. His open-source contributions include influential work on ASP.NET Core repos (benchmarks, templates, hosting, and MVC) and hands‑on migration and performance improvements for real samples like MusicStore and ConferencePlanner. He pairs pragmatic engineering (e.g., replacing GUIDs with incrementing longs for request IDs) with a focus on observability and deployability, helping teams ship reliable, testable web apps. Based in Redmond, he combines platform-level thinking with frequent, detailed code contributions that surface non‑obvious operational wins.
17 years of coding experience
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Github contributions (5)
dotnet-presentations/aspnetcore-app-workshop
Jan 2018 - Oct 2021
This workshop will teach you ASP.NET Core by building a complete conference management website from scratch.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:73 commits, 6 PRs, 60 pushes in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Damian primarily focused on upgrading the ASP.NET Core application to version 2.2. They updated the project files for both the backend and frontend to use the new .NET Core version. Additionally, the user introduced a helper class to address an IIS hosting issue related to the current directory, enhancing the application's compatibility with in-process hosting environments. Further commits include merging master branch updates and refactoring code.
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microsoft/aspire
Nov 2023 - Jul 2026
Aspire is the tool for code-first, extensible, observable dev and deploy.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:823 reviews, 229 PRs, 551 pushes in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Damian contributed to the development of the Aspire starter template, adding features like anti-forgery middleware and named Redis cache usage to web projects. They also updated the starter template to use named Redis cache. Furthermore, they refactored project names and resolved issues related to Blazor forms and navigation within the eShopLite sample. Their work demonstrates a focus on the .NET Aspire framework, covering both web front-end and potentially API back-end aspects of application development.
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