Rob Relyea
Solopreneur at multifol.io
Bellevue, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolRob Relyea is a seasoned software leader and solopreneur based in Bellevue, Washington, with over 10 years of experience building developer tools and consumer-facing apps. As a former Principal Software Engineer and Engineering Manager at Microsoft, he helped drive NuGet client UX, performance, and accessibility work and earlier led WPF/XAML and Kinect efforts that shaped Microsoft’s UI platform. Today he runs multifol.io, building a savings planner and portfolio tracker, and previously launched CovidSafe.fyi to help immunocompromised people find Evusheld—showing a pragmatic focus on high-impact, user-centered tools. An active open-source contributor (notably to the widely used NuGet.Client), his work spans image-loading and infinite-scroll optimizations to subtle UX touches like selectable text and restore-bar animations, reflecting deep platform experience plus attention to accessibility. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Michigan and thrives at the intersection of tooling, UI, and real-world problem solving.
10 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at University of Michigan
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Github Skills (17)
ui-d10
xaml10
xamlx10
ui-design10
front-end-development10
dotnet-core10
wpf10
csharp10
frontend-development10
package-management9
accessibility9
nuget9
net9
aspnet9
dotnet8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
NuGet/NuGet.Client
Feb 2016 - Apr 2021
Client Tools for NuGet - including Visual Studio extensions, command line tools, and msbuild support. (Open issues on https://github.com/nuget/home/issues)
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 183 reviews, 133 commits in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Rob focused on improving the user interface and performance of the NuGet package manager client, which involved image loading optimizations and fixing issues with the infinite scroll list. Their contributions included implementing animations for the restore bar and making text blocks selectable. Furthermore, they added support for displaying installed versions in the ComboBox version listing. They also worked on accessibility improvements, addressing issues with screen readers and the layout of the package details.
dotnetnuget-clpackage-managercommand-line-toolsmsbuild
rrelyea/evusheld
Jan 2022 - Jul 2022
Contributions:444 commits, 412 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
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