.NET Foundation Board | 12x Microsoft MVP | Founder & Consultant
Jonathan Tower is a .NET Foundation Board member and 12-time Microsoft MVP who serves as founding partner of Trailhead Technology Partners. With over 25 years of experience, he helps organizations with .NET development, modernization and migrations, and pragmatic AI integration. He speaks at conferences worldwide, runs meetups and an annual conference, and lives in Grand Rapids, MI with his wife and children.
I’m currently a 12-time recipient of the Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) award. The Microsoft MVP award is something Microsoft grants annually to individuals in the software community who are experts and actively share that expertise with the world. This can include...
Read on Trailhead →As a software consultant, I’ve noticed a pattern play out at nearly every client over the last year. A team adopts Cursor or Claude Code or Copilot and their productivity, especially on greenfield tasks, jumps noticeably. And then, someone asks: “If the AI can do this, what ar...
Read on Trailhead →It seems like everyone is doing AI-assisted development these days. For a lot of people, it feels like magic: you ask for a thing, and suddenly you have that thing, even if you have no idea how to make that thing yourself. Sometimes that’s exactly what you need. Other times it...
Read on Trailhead →Building a cross-platform app usually starts with a deceptively simple goal: one team, one codebase, multiple targets. The reality is that your framework choice shapes everything from the UI architecture, to the delivery speed, testing strategy, hiring, and how much “platform ...
Read on Trailhead →Microsoft has announced that starting January 2026, the C# Dev Kit and C# VS Code extension will no longer support development using the .NET 6 and .NET 7 SDKs. In the blog post below, I’ll walk you through what teams running these versions of .NET in production need to know. ...
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