Brian Lagunas
13x Microsoft MVP | Director of Product Development | Developer Experience Leader | Owner of Prism (80M+ Downloads) | Speaker • Instructor • OSS Advocate | Building tools developers love
- Role
- Director of Product Development at Infragistics
- Location
- Boise, ID, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Brian Lagunas
Before I wrote my first line of code, I served as a squad leader in the U.S. Army infantry and as a deputy sheriff. Those experiences taught me something that still drives everything I do: when people depend on you, you show up and you deliver.I carried that into software. I\'ve spent 20+ years building, scaling, and shipping developer tools, UI frameworks, SDKs, and embedded analytics across desktop, web, mobile, and cloud. I created the Extended WPF Toolkit to solve problems I faced daily as a developer. It grew to millions of downloads and was eventually acquired. Microsoft entrusted me with ownership of the Prism Library, now at 80+ million downloads. I\'ve earned 13 consecutive Microsoft MVP awards, spoken at 100+ conferences across four continents, and authored courses on Pluralsight.At Infragistics, I lead product and engineering for developer tools serving millions globally. I own strategy, roadmap, architecture, and execution end-to-end. I\'m the person who prototypes the SDK on Monday, presents it to 500 developers at a conference on Wednesday, and sits with a Fortune 500 CTO on Friday to close the deal.I care deeply about API design, developer experience, and building tools that earn long-term trust through technical quality and authentic community engagement.If you\'re building platforms that developers bet their careers on, let\'s connect.Areas of focus:Developer Tools & Platforms • Product & Engineering Leadership • SDKs & APIs • Developer Experience • Embedded Analytics • Open Source • Developer Relations • Product-Led Growth
Experience
Director of Product Development
Jan 2026 — Present
Education
ITT Technical Institute-Boise
Bachelor's Degree, Software Engineering
2003 — 2008
Boise State University
Japanese Studies
Skills
- Wcf
- Silverlight
- T-Sql
- Microsoft Silverlight
- Windows Presentation Foundation (Wpf)
- Wpf
- Xaml
- Test Driven Development
- Entity Framework
- .net Framework
- C#
- .net
- Oop
- Linq
- User Experience
- Tfs
- Scrum
- Mvvm
- Ado.net
- User Interface
- Design Patterns
- Product Management
- Mvc
- Visual Studio
- Object-Oriented Programming (Oop)
- Prism
- Language Integrated Query (Linq)
- Web Applications
- Windows 8
- Conference Speaker
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