Richard Lander is a Principal Program Manager on the .NET team at Microsoft. He works on making .NET work great in the cloud, in memory-limited Docker containers, and on ARM hardware like the Raspberry Pi. He is part of the design team that defines new .NET runtime capabilities and features. Richard also focuses on making the .NET open source project a safe inclusive place for people to learn, do interesting projects and develop their skills. He also writes extensively for the .NET blog. Richard reported for work at Microsoft in 2000, having just graduated from the University of Waterloo (Canada) with an Honours English degree, with intensive study areas in Computer Science and SGML/XML Markup Languages. In his spare time, he swims, bikes and runs and enjoys using power tools. He grew up in Canada and New Zealand.