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Richard Hauer

MVP 2026

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Australia
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Timeline

2025

14/Nov

Marketplace - ASPNET Blazor SDK

Developed a Blazor SDK for the marketplace that will be open-sourced shortly, once further feature coverage is completed. This is a nuGet package that makes it trivial to build a Blazor plugin for Marketplace that runs in WASM mode or server mode with virtually no distinction in the approach, greatly extending development options for organisations.

This also includes a supporting GraphQL Builder package that allows .net users to use idiomatic C# and strong typing when interacting with GraphQL...

Sitecore XM Cloud

2025

14/Nov

Marketplace - ASPNET Blazor UI Kit for Blok

Developed an open-source package that includes a suite of components ported from the ShadCN Blok UI kit, allowing marketplace developers that are using the Blazor SDK to include components that mimic the look and feel of the XM Cloud portal

Sitecore XM Cloud

2025

10/Nov

XMC Marketplace

Worked with Krassi Eneva, Spyros Misichronis, Rob Earlam and others on the Marketplace Early Access program, helping to prove and troubleshoot the Marketplace SDK and contribute to a successful launch of the program by delivering 5 plugins on launch day (though 2 are still blocked by a bug that is being fixed).

Sitecore XM Cloud

2025

15/Aug

SUGCON ANZ - Speaker

Presented a paper on Performance Tuning Approaches for XM/XP at SUGCON ANZ

Sitecore XM Sitecore XP

2025

14/Aug

SUGCON ANZ

Organiser and sponsor of SUGCON ANZ. I was closely involved with the planning and execution of the event, along with Tamas, Nicole Monterro and our Event Manager, Shonna Mulley. I also helped to host the Speaker dinner and select the venue.

2025

30/Apr

Powered by Sitecore: Why Static Sites Still Matter

Authored an article on use of SSG with Sitecore XM/XP. Engagement with this idea is useful as a conditioning mechanism to help clients understand the benefits of static and enhanced-static sites, which can help them see the benefits in migration to XM Cloud.

Sitecore XM Sitecore XP

2025

1/Jan

Meetups & Domain Hosting

PING sponsors the Sydney Sitecore User Group and Australian Sitecore Marketers User Group, as well as the 'sugcon.events' domain. I am the primary organiser of both Meetup Groups.

See also https://www.meetup.com/australian-sitecore-marketers-meetup-group

2023

1/Apr

SUGCON ANZ - Organiser Committee

Organising Committee member and sponsor of the SUGCON ANZ event this year, just completed (as well as the previous two).

2023

1/Jan

Sydney Sitecore User Group - convenor

I am the organiser for the Sydney Sitecore User Group and have been for many years. We support the group by organising events and speakers, and sponsoring the costs of the venue, food and drinks for attendees and the costs for Meetup membership

2023

1/Jan

Sitecore Stack Exchange

Various responses to technical issues from time to time (though not for a while). Was a founding member of the beta site but that was a long time ago, too, so probably not that relevant.

2023

1/Jan

Sitecore Community Slack

Various contributions to the #azure and #architecture channels (and #random but we probably shouldn't count those)