Alan P. Barber

Software Developer, Computer Scientist, Scrum Master, & Crohn’s Disease Fighter

Biography

Software Architect, Application Developer, Web Developer, & Database Developer. I specialize in Software Development with a focus on Architecture and Design. I have worked with both hardware and software throughout my career. I mainly develop for the Microsoft .Net stack.

Interests

Artificial Intelligence
Crypto-Currency
Distributed Computing
Software Architecture

Education

Exam 70-480 - Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3, 2014
Microsoft
Professional Scrum Master I, 2012
Scrum.Org
BS in Computer Science, 2004
Bowling Green State University

Experience

My professional work history.
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Principal Consultant

Improving

Mar 2012 – Present Columbus, Ohio

A consultant providing development services with specialization in ReactJS, AngularJS, KnockoutJS, ASP.NET, C#, Microsoft SQL Server, and Microsoft Azure based technologies.

Consultant

Quick Solutions (now Fusion Alliance)

Jan 2011 – Mar 2012 Columbus, Ohio

A consultant providing development services with specialization in ASP.NET, C# and Microsoft SQL Server based technologies.

Senior Programmer

Corporate Research International

Nov 2005 – Jan 2011 Findlay, Ohio

Web Developer, Database Administrator, Phone Systems. I may have been a programmer by title but I was the manager of all things IT. I dealt with both software development as well as hardware issues.

Recent Posts

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Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control for C# Developers

A practical guide to Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control in C#. Covers constructor injection, composition roots, lifetimes, containers, testing, and when DI is overkill.

Alan P. Barber

Jan 28, 2026 7 min read

ResultR v1.0.2 Released: Functional Pattern Matching with Match()

ResultR v1.0.2 introduces the Match() method for functional-style pattern matching on results, making it easier to handle success and failure cases in a clean, expressive way.

Alan P. Barber

Jan 28, 2026 2 min read

Introducing ResultR

A Modern Take on Request/Response Dispatching for .NET Hello World! I’ve been working on a side project that I wanted to share with you all. After MediatR went to a paid model, I’m sure you heard all about that?

Alan P. Barber

Jan 4, 2026 7 min read