Bennor McCarthy
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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RockstarBennor Mccarthy is a senior sales engineer and MACH technology leader with over two decades of hands-on full-stack development and architecture experience, and 13 years in senior technical roles. Based in Melbourne, he architects and delivers modular digital experiences across retail, entertainment, education and engineering, focusing on quality and performance of best-of-breed SaaS compositions. As MACH Technology Director at AKQA ANZ and now Senior Sales Engineer at Vercel, he blends strategic delivery leadership with client-facing technical enablement. He is an active open-source contributor to .NET tooling—improving the popular Refit REST library with robust header handling, URL-encoded form posts and better error handling—demonstrating an attention to API client reliability. Trained in computer science at the University of Auckland, Bennor pairs deep engineering craft with practical product sensibilities and a knack for translating complex integrations into repeatable platforms.
14 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (33)
apim10
json10
api-design10
net10
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asp-net10
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dotnet-core10
csharp10
restful-api9
linq9
xamarin-android9
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
reactiveui/refit
May 2014 - Jun 2019
The automatic type-safe REST library for .NET Core, Xamarin and .NET. Heavily inspired by Square's Retrofit library, Refit turns your REST API into a live interface.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 58 commits, 20 PRs in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Bennor's primary contributions focused on enhancing the Refit library's functionality. They implemented support for request headers, allowing for both hardcoded and dynamic header configurations. Further development included the addition of URL-encoded form post capabilities and enhancements to handle exceptions during error content reading. These changes demonstrate a focus on API client functionality and robustness.
dotnetrestrest-apiretrofittypesafe
bennor/AutoT4MVC
Sep 2012 - Jan 2023
A zero-configuration Visual Studio 2012+ extension for automatically running T4MVC templates on build and when files are modified in paths that T4MVC cares about.
Contributions:1 release, 37 commits, 1 PR in 10 years 5 months
visual-studiozero-configuration
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