About the Author

Manish Vasani is a senior software developer working for Microsoft Corporation based in Redmond, WA, USA. He is extremely passionate about working on extensible compiler platforms designed to enable rich analysis scenarios. He did his master's in Computer Science at Columbia University, New York, with a focus on compiler design under the guidance of Professor Alfred V. Aho.

He has roughly 10+ years of work experience at Microsoft, and has been on the Roslyn Managed Languages team since mid-2011. During this time, he has worked on the Roslyn compiler and IDE teams, as well as on the new Roslyn project system for .Net Core projects.

He is currently working on the Roslyn analyzers team and was part of the design team for the analyzer and code fix API and implemented the analyzer driver that executes the analyzers in the compiler and VS IDE. They are also working towards porting FxCop code analysis rules to FxCop analyzers.