Lance McCarthy is an exceptional community leader with an acute expertise for all things .NET and C# (especially on the XAML stack) as well as HoloLens/Mixed Reality applications.

As a 7 year Microsoft MVP, conference speaker, hackathon host (and repeat winning participant), Lance is deeply ingrained with the developer community. He is very helpful online, guiding and answering questions from Microsoft developers on Twitter as @lancewmccarthy and blogs at DVLUP.com. He organizes & hosts events in the Boston area such as user group nights, mini-code camps and full hackathons.

During the day Lance is a Principal Technical Support Engineer at Progress Software. Where he supports developers with their Windows, UWP, Xamarin, .NET Core, ASP.NET and VR/AR application development efforts using the Telerik components.

On the side, Lance writes blog posts for blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/, creates resources for developer (tutorials, sample source code, tips of the week, etc) and helps the developer community in any way possible.

Previously, Lance worked for Nokia and Microsoft as a Developer Ambassador, where he sought out and engaged developers through outreach programs and provides them with technical support and resources to make them successful on the Windows platforms.

Lance was a guest Assistant Professor at Harvard University, helping students build, market and publish successful Windows Phone apps. He still occasionally is a guest speaker at Boston University.

He has also appeared on numerous podcasts and shows, has been a technical editor for many publications and books, has won many hackathons (including first place the Microsoft Build hackathon), and is a published developer with over a million downloads in the Microsoft Store.