Andy Dent
Founder And Everythinger at Touchgram
Perth, Western Australia
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Top SchoolAndy Dent is a seasoned founder and polyglot engineer with 12+ years of product-focused experience building cross-platform mobile and desktop software, best known for Touchgram, a patented interactive messaging platform now live in iMessage. He combines deep legacy-port expertise—moving MFC and Classic Mac code to modern OSes—with modern mobile database work (notably contributions to Realm’s Xamarin SDK and realm-dotnet). Comfortable from low-level C++ to Swift and Kotlin, Andy excels at designing usable workflows for naive/infrequent users and crafting OO/distributed architectures and APIs. An active open-source contributor and author ("Getting Started with LevelDB"), he also brings a practical history of shipping complex visualization and data systems for enterprise and scientific clients. Based in Perth, he pairs entrepreneurial “everythinger” instincts with a knack for rescuing and modernizing difficult legacy codebases.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at Curtin University of TechnologyPinjarra Senior High School
English
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Github Skills (24)
net10
dotnet10
asp-net10
realm10
database-design10
dotnet-core10
doxygen10
csharp10
documentation10
testing9
mobile-development9
uml9
user-interface9
xamarin9
tdd9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
realm/realm-dotnet
Jul 2015 - Jan 2017
Realm is a mobile database: a replacement for SQLite & ORMs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 621 commits, 122 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Andy primarily worked on building and fixing core functionalities within the realm-dotnet repository, which focused on a mobile database. Their commits involved fixing build processes for different environments, including Android and iOS, by addressing script errors and environment variable configurations. They also contributed to enhancing the test suite by adding and modifying tests related to object persistence and query functionality.
realtimedotnetormssyncreact-native
AndyDentFree/im-plausibilities
Jan 2019 - Sep 2022
Contributions:69 commits, 38 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
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