Kathleen Dollard
Experienced .NET engineer, former Microsoft PM who worked on the .NET CLI and SDK, and an educator and consultant focused on C# and command-line tooling.
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Mar 5, 2026 • 55min
CLI First with Kathleen Dollard
Kathleen Dollard, experienced .NET engineer and former Microsoft contributor who helped build the .NET CLI. She argues CLIs should be the first interface you design. Short takes on POSIX conventions, OpenCLI and AI-friendly consistency. Talks System.CommandLine, Dragonfruit 2, scripting readability, deprecation strategies, and why CLI-first clarifies APIs and GUIs.
