• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
Housing Technology logo

Housing Technology

Housing | IT | Telecoms | Business | Ecology

  • Free Subscription
  • Search Archive
  • Home
  • Research
  • Magazine
  • Events
  • Recruitment
  • Blog
  • On Demand
  • Contact
Home / Free Subscriber Access / Flagship software engineer’s Microsoft award

Flagship software engineer’s Microsoft award

A software engineer from Flagship Group has won one of Microsoft’s exclusive ‘most valuable professional’ (MVP) awards for developer technologies in recognition of his exceptional technical community leadership.

Flagship’s Chris Sainty won the award based on his work on Microsoft’s Blazor product. He became interested in the product when it was a prototype and has been blogging about it for the last 18 months.

The MVP award is given by Microsoft to “technology experts who passionately share their knowledge with the community”. The scheme has been around for 20 years and is extremely exclusive; there are only around 2,500 MVPs worldwide, with just 153 in the UK.

Sainty said, “I’m delighted to have won this award, although I still can’t quite believe it; it’s akin to signing for a football team like Real Madrid in the software world. From a professional perspective at Flagship, I hope having an MVP will help us attract more like-minded people who are passionate about technology and inspire others to work towards the award.”

As well as blogging, Sainty has also created several software libraries for use with Blazor and acts as a community expert for software engineers who are getting started by providing support in chat rooms (incl. StackOverflow) and on social media. Just recently, he was also asked to give a podcast and talk at a software development event in Cambridge.

Matt Brazier, director of IT, Flagship Group, said, “We’re thrilled to see Chris getting this recognition from Microsoft. Having such expertise in-house is a major benefit to Flagship and winning this award is a huge endorsement for Chris – we are very proud of everything that he has achieved.”

See More On:

  • Vendor: Microsoft
  • Housing Association: Flagship Group
  • Topic: General News
  • Publication Date: 071 - September 2019
  • Type: News

Primary Sidebar

Most Recent Articles

  • Free cyber-defence tools from NCSC
  • Learning from history
  • Grand Union Housing gets connected with Aico HomeLink
  • The silences in the system: Predicting and preventing damp and mould
  • Looking back and to the future: Cyberthreats in social housing
  • Hyde signs repairs contract with Totalmobile
  • Fuelling high performance automation
  • Morgan Sindall’s Carbon Zero decarbonisation tool
  • An ethical approach to arrears
  • Housing and the ever-evolving workplace
  • Supporting residents with home safety risks
  • Less innovation & more service design at RHP
  • Ateb Group outsources IT help desks to Central Networks
  • Capital Letters partners with Evo Digital to tackle homelessness
  • Calico appoints M247 for digital transformation
  • 24/7 care requires 24/7 technology
  • Govtech trends for 2023
  • Are you ready for business process automation?
  • Lincoln council moves to the cloud with Civica
  • Why do IT business improvement projects fail?
  • Flagship and Ebrik launch augmented reality app
  • Following the golden thread
  • Setting the standard for carbon-monoxide protection
  • The business case for data
  • Digital twins – When, not if…
  • Using data to build communities
  • The cyber-security jigsaw’s missing piece – Managed detection & response
  • Cyber-security challenges in housing
  • Digitalising retrofits with SHDF & HomeLink
  • Tips for improving care and support

Footer

Housing Technology
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • Contact
  • Free Subscription
  • Book an event
  • Blog
  • Search All Articles
  • Research
  • Update Your Subscription
  • Privacy Policy

Welcome to the housing Technology – Trusted Information For Business Professionals in HOusing

Housing Technology is the leading technology information service for the UK housing sector and local governments. We have always believed in the fundamental importance of how the UK’s social housing providers use technology to improve their tenants’ lives.

Subscribe to Housing Technology to gain market-leading research, unsurpassed peer networking opportunities and a greater understanding of your role to transform your business.

Copyright © The Intelligent Business Company 2022 | Terms and Conditions | Privacy Policy
Housing Technology is published by the The Intelligent Business Company. A company with limited liability. Registered in England No. 4958057 | Vat Registion No. 833 0069 55.

Registered Business Address: Hoppingwood Farm, Robin Hood Way, London, SW20 0AB | Telephone: +44 (0) 20 8336 2293

htc23 pop banner