Brandon Minnick
Independent .NET consultant, developer advocate, and Microsoft MVP. I help engineering teams ship better .NET apps, and I help developer-tool companies build DevRel teams that turn content into revenue
Email meWhat I do
.NET consulting
Architecture reviews, code reviews, async and performance audits, and hands-on development for .NET MAUI, ASP.NET Core, and Blazor apps. $200 per hour, or a fixed price for a defined project.
DevRel consulting
A 90-day engagement that builds your developer relations program from the ground up, then hires and trains the advocate who runs it. Starting at $10,000 per month.
Workshops
Become an Expert with Async/Await in C#: a hands-on workshop for your team, on site or remote, as taught at NDC London and NDC Oslo in 2026. Starting at $9,500.
Courses and video
Video courses and technical video series for your product or your team. Five Dometrain courses and a nine-episode series for Cognee so far. Starting at $4,000 per video.
Why teams call me
- Creator and lead maintainer of CommunityToolkit.Maui (10 million+ NuGet downloads) and AsyncAwaitBestPractices (7.9 million+ across its two packages).
- 15+ years of C#, with roles at Xamarin, Microsoft, and Amazon Web Services. Microsoft MVP.
- More than 100 conferences, meetups, and livestreams since 2018. Sessionize Most Active Speaker in 2023 and 2024.
- Five Dometrain courses, 22 hours of lessons, 4.6 average rating.
Recent work
- A nine-episode technical video series for Cognee, each episode with a script, a demo repo, and tracked links. On the Courses and Video page.
- The two-day async/await workshop at NDC Oslo 2026, where every evaluation rated the instructor and the content Good or Very Good. On the Workshops page.
- The Microsoft.Extensions.AI series on this blog, one building block per post, starting with Creating an AI Chat Bot in .NET with IChatClient.
From the blog
Notes since 2018 on .NET MAUI, ASP.NET Core, async/await, and whatever I am building this month.