Henry Sanders
Distinguished Engineer
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A Microsoft veteran since 1988, Henry Sanders is a Distinguished Engineer who has worked in both Windows and the Developer Division. He currently works in Windows as a General Manager running the Core Networking and Collaboration group in Windows Networking. His group delivers products and technologies in the areas of hardware offload, high speed networking, QoS, HTTP, IPv6, Firewall Traversal, Seamless Remote Access, P2P networking, and IPSec.
From the time he joined Microsoft Sanders grew from senior development responsibilities that centered on networking and network protocols. An early member of the effort that eventually became the company's web services program (now Indigo) he served as protocol architect for IIS 3 and IIS 4, was responsible for building the HTTP.SYS foundation and lead the development of the original .net frameworks net classes. He also led the development efforts of some of Microsoft’s early Internet protocols, including the TCP/IP protocol stack and other transport protocols.
Sanders began his career working on the OS/2 LAN Manager project, then later the Windows for Workgroups and Windows NT projects, where his responsibilities ranged from designing Microsoft’s lower layer networking systems architecture to authoring the early NDIS, TDI and WinSock specifications.
He holds a Bachelor’s of Science Degree from Cornell University.
