Please welcome Erich Gamma to the Visual Studio team!

Today I am thrilled to announce that Erich Gamma will be joining the Visual Studio team as a Microsoft Distinguished Engineer!  Erich’s contributions have had a huge impact on the software industry.  Erich has a passion for shipping high quality, elegant software, something he shared with the community as co-author of Design Patterns.  He has always had a passion for building tools to make development more productive and pleasant. Together with Kent Beck he developed the JUnit unit test framework. He was one of the key technical leads of the Eclipse project and he has lead the Eclipse Java Development tools.  Recently his focus was on making teams more effective. He was an initial member of the Jazz project and the technical lead of Rational Team Concert. Finally, Erich has worked to bring teams together across the application life cycle and he was the lead of Rational's Collaborative Lifecycle Management effort.

Erich will continue to live and work out of Zurich, Switzerland where we will be opening a small Visual Studio development lab with Erich as the lead.  Erich will join the lab in early August.  For those who are interested in applying for positions with the new Zurich lab you can send mail to CHDevDiv@Microsoft.com to get details.

The Visual Studio team is passionate about inspiring developers to create great software.  We want to make developers successful and enable them to continuously deliver value.  We are constantly looking for better ways to accomplish these goals.  I’m very excited to have someone like Erich who shares our passion join the team.  Please join me in welcoming Erich to the Visual Studio team!

Jason

Comments

• Anonymous
  June 05, 2011
  What a news! That's great. -- Eric.

• Anonymous
  June 05, 2011
  That is really great news...

• Anonymous
  June 05, 2011
  Wow, Great news! Erich is one of my idols on Design Patterns. Looking forward to meet Erich soon in one of Microsoft Conferences or in Redmond. Welcome Erich.

• Anonymous
  June 05, 2011
  This guy rocks!

• Anonymous
  June 05, 2011
  WelCome to The Jungle Mr. Gamma . GoF Rulz

• Anonymous
  June 06, 2011
  Welcome, Erich!

• Anonymous
  June 06, 2011
  That is great

• Anonymous
  June 06, 2011
  Welcome Erich! will wait for the VS vNEXT.

• Anonymous
  June 06, 2011
  Great news !!! I hope to see some new features and new "way of life" in Visual Studio soon :D Regards

• Anonymous
  June 06, 2011
  Great news :)

• Anonymous
  June 06, 2011
  Well Eclipse never became a stable and fully functional IDE. Let's see what he does with VS.

• Anonymous
  June 06, 2011
  So, things are going to get more complicated and with less documentation ?

• Anonymous
  June 06, 2011
  Does this mean we'll see more of an "Open Visual Studio" in the future?

• Anonymous
  June 06, 2011
  Way to end a legacy

• Anonymous
  June 06, 2011
  congratulations Mr.Erich Gamma

• Anonymous
  June 06, 2011
  wonderful,  here is a link to many papers by Erich: academic.research.microsoft.com/.../erich-gamma

• Anonymous
  June 06, 2011
  Great!!

• Anonymous
  June 06, 2011
  great news, welcome Erich!

• Anonymous
  June 06, 2011
  welcome

• Anonymous
  June 06, 2011
  Welcome, Erich!  Fantastic news for Visual Studio.

• Anonymous
  June 06, 2011
  Glad to hear that. Congrats!

• Anonymous
  June 07, 2011
  Visual studio working with the betters

• Anonymous
  June 07, 2011
  Really cool!

• Anonymous
  June 07, 2011
  welcome Erich.. I cannot wait to see your job in vs team..

• Anonymous
  June 07, 2011
  Boo!!!!! Put him back

• Anonymous
  June 07, 2011
  Welcome !!       glad to hear that !

• Anonymous
  June 08, 2011
  Hi Jason, I sent mail to CHDevDiv@Microsoft.com several days ago. Could you please tell me when I should expect to get a reply? Thank you.

• Anonymous
  June 08, 2011
  Really, really, really good news.

• Anonymous
  June 08, 2011
  @John - thanks for sending in mail, I'm checking to ensure it went through and make sure you get a reponse

• Anonymous
  June 08, 2011
  Great news 4 VS

• Anonymous
  June 10, 2011
  Well, that's a great move for the VS team.

• Anonymous
  June 11, 2011
  That's great news to VS team. Welcome Erich, I wish I could join a team like this! =)

• Anonymous
  June 13, 2011
  Great! MSFT is a place of legends of our time!

• Anonymous
  June 13, 2011
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• Anonymous
  June 14, 2011
  awesome! now visual studio will become as bloated an slow as eclipse!

• Anonymous
  June 14, 2011
  Comeback Erich! These guys don't deserve you! ;-)

• Anonymous
  June 21, 2011
  Great news!

• Anonymous
  July 01, 2011
  So, it means that in the nearest future MSVS will transform to MSVIM? :)