Patrick Dussud is currently the lead architect for the .NET Common Language Runtime, the chief architect for the .NET Framework, and is a member of the Window Core Architecture team.

He has been at Microsoft since 1994, mostly focusing on language runtime architectures: VBA, VBscript, Jscript, MS Java, and .NET CLR. He has also designed a lot of garbage collectors.

Before moving to the Northwest, Patrick worked on Lisp runtimes at Schlumberger, and Texas Instruments, and on programming environments (such as Cadillac and Energize) at Lucid Software.

He holds an MS degree from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne in France.