A Microsoft veteran since 1988, Henry Sanders is a Distinguished Engineer who has worked in Windows, Developer Division, and Entertainment and Devices. He currently works in Windows Mobile as Director of Development, where he is responsible for architecture and engineering for the next generation of Windows Phones. Prior to that Sanders was General Manager and Director of Development for the Windows Networking team, responsible for Direct Access, BranchCache, and Remote Media experience for Windows 7, as well as other products and technologies in TCP/IP, WiFi, IPv6, hardware offload, high speed networking, QoS, HTTP, Firewall Traversal, P2P networking, and IPSec for multiple releases of Windows.

From the time he joined Microsoft, Sanders’ development responsibilities have centered on networking and network protocols. An early member of efforts that eventually yielded the company's web services programs, he served as protocol architect for IIS 3 and IIS 4, was responsible for building the HTTP.SYS foundation and led the development of the.NET frameworks System.Net classes. Sanders led the development efforts of some of Microsoft’s early Internet protocol implementations, including the Microsoft TCP/IP protocol stack, as well as the transport and network drivers that preceded that. He is responsible for the fundamental network systems architecture of Windows including the original design of NDIS and TDI and is one of the co-authors of the WinSock specification. He began his career working on the OS/2 LAN Manager project, followed by the Windows for Workgroups, Win 95,  and Windows NT projects.

Sanders holds a Bachelor’s of Science Degree from Cornell University.