- VP and Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft and GitHub1
- Host, Hanselminutes12
Scott Hanselman is a programmer, teacher, speaker, and podcaster who writes and makes shows about developers, .NET, open source, AI developer experiences, Azure, and GitHub. Scott hosts Hanselminutes, a weekly talk show on technology, and co-hosts Scott and Mark Learn To, a video podcast with Azure CTO Mark Russinovich. Scott also makes Azure Friday, a video podcast about the cloud. Scott has written a blog for more than two decades and works as a VP and Member of Technical Staff at Microsoft and GitHub.12
At a glance
- Current roles
- VP and Member of Technical Staff +1 more
- Companies
- Microsoft, Hanselminutes
- Sector
- Company
- Work listed
- 2
- Sources cited
- 6
- Profile reviewed
Work at Microsoft and GitHub
Hanselman is a VP and Member of Technical Staff at Microsoft and GitHub, working on developer productivity with .NET, Azure, GitHub and AI-powered developer tools and on making technical education more practical. Hanselman speaks to developers on topics such as AI developer tools, large-scale system architecture, cloud computing and .NET.1
Channel and publications
Hanselman began the weekly Hanselminutes podcast in January 2006 and has hosted it since; an October 2026 episode, produced with ACM ByteCast, featured 2025 ACM A.M. Turing Award recipients Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard. Hanselman also co-hosts Scott and Mark Learn To with Azure CTO Mark Russinovich, and presents Azure Friday on Microsoft Learn, where hosts talk with the engineers who build Azure.23415
Hanselman has written a blog for more than two decades and helped write books on ASP.NET 4.5 and ASP.NET MVC 4. Earlier, now-archived shows include This Developer's Life, long-form audio essays about developers made with Rob Conery.16
Work and contributions
Hanselminutes Show, channel or publication
Hosts the weekly technology talk show, described as deep tech talk from an inclusive perspective.21
Scott and Mark Learn To Show, channel or publication
Co-hosts a video podcast with Azure CTO Mark Russinovich in which the two learn a new thing together.1
Timeline
Where they work
- Microsoft 75 people in the wiki
- Hanselminutes 1 person in the wiki
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