About Gus Perez

This site has been around since 2002 though I lost the majority of posts I made prior to 2005 (the world isn’t missing much though–rest easy).

I generally write about things that I’ve been frustrated by or learned about that I think others may find useful. Typically, topics covered include software, programming, technology, gadgets, music (guitar tab), books, and cycling.

On the personal front, I was born in Brooklyn, NY and currently live in Redmond, WA with my wife and two daughters. I have a bunch of interests including playing guitar, road cycling, photography, and coding.

On the work side, I’ve been at Microsoft since the late nineties (started as an intern in ’98) and have worked on Visual J++ 6, and every release of Visual Studio shipped since VS.NET 2002. More specifically, I was on the C# Compiler from version 1.0 through the early days of 3.0, a couple years on the Developer Division’s deployment technology team, another two years on the Cloud Tools team delivering the Windows Azure Tools (through v1.2), and am currently the Dev Manager for the team working on JavaScript and HTML5 support in Visual Studio. Prior to Microsoft, I worked at a few small companies mostly focusing in the telephony space including a startup that never got a chance to fail (one of the partners ran off with all the funding–good times).

On the side, I started a little side-project company called Zinko Labs (@zinkolabs) to distribute mobile apps I build on the side for fun.

Feel free to contact me via via email or on Twitter (@gusper).