.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.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was widely misquoted as saying SaaS is dead in his BG2 Podcast interview. What he was really saying is that AI is moving the build-versus-buy line—and this year we crossed it twice.
Read on Trailhead →We've seen the same pattern at almost every client. The backlog has a top half and a bottom half, and the top half is the active list. From it features are being shipped and bugs are being fixed. The bottom half, though, just gets longer, f…
Read on Trailhead →In this blog, I want to show you how I built something I estimated would take me 20-60 hours of work in about half a day. This included a React frontend, .NET A…
Read on Trailhead →I’m currently a 12-time recipient of the Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) award. The Microsoft MVP award is something Microsoft grants annually…
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 th…
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