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Top 16 ASP.NET Experts Available

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ASP.NET Core has become one of the most powerful and versatile frameworks in modern web development, thanks to a global community of extraordinary experts.

These include prolific open-source contributors, startup founders still building hands-on, influential educators and content creators, engineers driving innovation at top companies, and even competition-winning developers. Below is an updated and ranked list of 16 of the world’s best ASP.NET Core experts, selected for their outstanding impact across these areas:

  1. Jimmy Bogard
  2. Damian Edwards
  3. Rick Strahl
  4. Scott Hunter
  5. Andrew Lock
  6. Dominick Baier
  7. Steve Sanderson
  8. Shayne Boyer
  9. Daniel Roth
  10. Jeffrey T. Fritz
  11. Jon Galloway
  12. Ben Adams
  13. Marc Gravell
  14. Mads Kristensen
  15. Brock Allen
  16. Nicholas Blumhardt

Now, let’s delve into their remarkable journeys and contributions:

Jimmy Bogard

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Nationality: American

Jimmy Bogard is the Chief Architect at Headspring (now part of Accenture) and author of widely used .NET libraries.

He created AutoMapper (object-object mapper) and MediatR (CQRS/mediator library), which are often used in ASP.NET Core projects. Bogard is an active OSS maintainer and a popular speaker on architecture and testing in ASP.NET Core applications. He shares practical guidance on building large-scale ASP.NET Core systems through his blog and has influenced the architecture of many enterprise .NET projects.

Damian Edwards

Nationality: Australian

Damian Edwards is a former Principal Program Manager on the ASP.NET team at Microsoft and co-architect of ASP.NET Core.

Edwards was one of the leaders of the ASP.NET Core project, frequently seen in early Community Standups discussing design decisions. He co-created SignalR (with David Fowler) and drove many of the improvements in ASP.NET Core’s middleware and frameworks.

Rick Strahl

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Nationality: American

Rick Strahl is the founder of West Wind Technologies and a Microsoft ASP.NET MVP.

Strahl has been writing about building web applications with Microsoft technologies for decades and eagerly embraced ASP.NET Core. He maintains popular libraries and tools (West Wind Web Surge, West Wind Globalization) that support ASP.NET Core, and his blog is a go-to resource for deep dives into ASP.NET Core performance, deployment, and best practices. Rick’s longevity and continued contributions have guided many through the transition from classic ASP.NET to Core.

Scott Hunter

Scott Hunter - Top 16 ASP.NET Experts Available

Nationality: American

Scott Hunter is the Director of Program Management for .NET at Microsoft.

Scott oversees the overall .NET platform, including .NET Core and ASP.NET Core, and has been instrumental in the open-source, cross-platform reboot of .NET. He frequently announces new ASP.NET Core releases and features, guiding the product’s evolution and representing the needs of both enterprise and open-source developers.

Andrew Lock

Nationality: British

Andrew Lock is the author of “ASP.NET Core in Action” and a Microsoft MVP focused on ASP.NET Core.

Andrew’s blog (andrewlock.net) is well-known for its in-depth tutorials and explanations of obscure ASP.NET Core internals, from startup configuration to middleware, routing, and deployment. His clear writing has helped countless developers learn the new features of each ASP.NET Core release. Lock recently joined the .NET engineering team, where he now directly contributes to improving the framework he’s been writing about for years.

Dominick Baier

Nationality: German

Dominick Baier is the founder and Technical Advisor at Duende Software and Brock Allen’s partner in developing IdentityServer.

Dominick (“leastprivilege” online) has been a longtime Microsoft MVP and regional expert on identity & access control in .NET. He helped build the security model for ASP.NET Core through IdentityServer and regularly shares his knowledge via his blog “Least Privilege”, workshops, and talks on securing web APIs and applications in ASP.NET Core.

Steve Sanderson

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Nationality: British

Steve Sanderson is a developer/architect on the ASP.NET Core team at Microsoft and original creator of Blazor, the WebAssembly-based .NET web framework.

Sanderson, also known for creating the popular Knockout.js library earlier in his career, has pioneered client-side ASP.NET Core innovations. His prototypes (like “Blazor”) often turn into major ASP.NET Core features, showcasing his vision for the future of web development on .NET.

Shayne Boyer

Nationality: American

Shayne Boyer is a Principal Program Manager for Developer Experience at Microsoft.

Shayne (known as @spboyer) has been a key advocate for .NET and Azure developers, focusing on cloud-native ASP.NET Core applications. He works on .NET tooling (like the Azure Developer CLI) and writes about building microservices and modern web apps with ASP.NET Core and Azure. Boyer is also active in open source and frequently speaks at conferences, helping developers bridge ASP.NET Core with cloud services and DevOps.

Daniel Roth

Daniel Roth - Top 16 ASP.NET Experts Available

Nationality: American

Daniel Roth is a Principal Product Manager on Microsoft’s ASP.NET team.

Daniel focuses on ASP.NET Core and especially Blazor, guiding the framework’s development and authoring many posts and demos of new features. He has been with the ASP.NET team through various web technology shifts, and his work (including on Blazor and minimal APIs) helps make cutting-edge web tech approachable for .NET developers.

Jeffrey T. Fritz

Nationality: American

Jeffrey T. Fritz is a Principal Program Manager at Microsoft and a prominent .NET developer advocate.

Known to many as “C# Fritz”, he hosts live coding streams and the weekly ASP.NET Core Community Standup, engaging with the community in real-time. Fritz has helped developers migrate from older ASP.NET to Core through his blog and videos, and he’s built a reputation as a friendly face of the ASP.NET community (e.g., on Twitch and YouTube).

Jon Galloway

Jon Galloway - Top 16 ASP.NET Experts Available

Nationality: American

Jon Galloway is a .NET developer community leader and former Executive Director of the .NET Foundation.

Galloway co-hosted the ASP.NET Community Standups and has been instrumental in open-source outreach. He’s co-author of several ASP.NET books and a frequent speaker, helping developers understand and adopt ASP.NET Core through his approachable style and deep experience (he’s been writing about ASP.NET since the early days).

Ben Adams

Nationality: British

Ben Adams is a principal engineer and open-source contributor known for making ASP.NET Core faster.

As co-founder of Illyriad Games, he started by pushing .NET to its limits to run MMO game servers, and then contributed those optimizations back to .NET Core (especially the Kestrel web server). Ben’s contributions (often via GitHub) helped ASP.NET Core become one of the fastest web frameworks. He remains active in the .NET open-source community, focusing on performance tweaks and span-based optimizations that benefit all ASP.NET Core apps.

Marc Gravell

Nationality: British

Marc Gravell is a Principal Engineer at Stack Overflow and a highly respected .NET developer.

Marc is co-creator of Dapper, the popular lightweight ORM used widely with ASP.NET Core, and contributed to other libraries like StackExchange.Redis. As one of the top all-time contributors on Stack Overflow (for C#/.NET), Gravell has indirectly mentored countless ASP.NET Core developers. He actively writes high-performance .NET code powering Stack Overflow and shares optimization techniques with the community.

Mads Kristensen

Mads Kristensen - Top 16 ASP.NET Experts Available

Nationality: Danish

Mads Kristensen is a Principal Program Manager on the Visual Studio team at Microsoft and a prolific open-source developer.

He has built over 150 free Visual Studio extensions (many geared toward web/ASP.NET developers), including Web Essentials. A long-time ASP.NET advocate, Mads was an early adopter of ASP.NET Core and has created tools that simplify web development tasks (bundling, minification, diagnostics) for the ASP.NET community.

Brock Allen

Nationality: American

Brock Allen is a security expert and co-founder of Duende Software.

Brock co-created IdentityServer, the de-facto open-source identity and OAuth server for ASP.NET Core, which has been used by thousands of projects to handle authentication and single sign-on. With over 25 years of experience in .NET and web security, he now provides commercial support and evolution of IdentityServer (Duende IdentityServer) and continues to educate developers on topics like OAuth2/OIDC in ASP.NET Core.

Nicholas Blumhardt

Nationality: Australian

Nicholas Blumhardt is the co-founder of Datalust (maker of Seq) and the creator of Serilog, the structured logging library for .NET.

Serilog’s clear API and enrichments made it a favorite logging framework, and it’s heavily used in ASP.NET Core applications (often via the built-in logging extensions). Nick has been an active open-source contributor in the .NET ecosystem for years, advocating for structured logging and modern diagnostic practices. His work (including Autofac in earlier days) has improved how ASP.NET Core apps are built and monitored.

Wrap Up

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