Brandon Minnick
Owner, .NET Consultant at Code Traveler LLC
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolBrandon Minnick is a mobile-first .NET consultant and entrepreneur with over a decade of experience building cross-platform apps and leading developer advocacy at Microsoft and AWS. He created and continues to steward the widely used .NET MAUI/Xamarin Community Toolkits, shipping libraries and sample apps that accelerate iOS, Android and Windows development for millions of developers. As owner of Code Traveler LLC he blends hands-on engineering with teaching—delivering workshops, open-source contributions and tooling that simplify real-world app scenarios. His background spans low-level systems and satellite communications to cloud-native validation tooling, giving him a rare combination of embedded, infrastructure and mobile expertise. Based in San Francisco, he pairs an MBA with an electrical/computer engineering foundation and a track record of driving developer engagement through talks, tutorials and production apps in all major app stores.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) at University of Florida
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Github Skills (39)
nuget10
github-ci10
ios10
xamarin-android10
mobile-development10
maui10
net10
xamarin10
dotnet10
xamarin-ios10
android-development10
net-maui10
asp-net10
media-player10
xamarin-forms10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
TheCodeTraveler/GitTrends
May 2019 - Jan 2023
A iOS and Android app to monitor the Views, Clones and Star history of your GitHub repos
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:50 releases, 97 reviews, 1687 commits in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Brandon's commits primarily focus on the development of the GitTrends iOS application. They made several changes, including downgrading Xamarin.Forms and fixing scrolling issues within iOS's CarouselPage, as well as updating various NuGet packages used in the project. These updates show the user working on the front-end of the iOS app, ensuring compatibility and fixing UI-related bugs.
monitorgithub-api-v3star-historyreact-nativegithub-clone
xamarin/XamarinCommunityToolkit
Nov 2020 - May 2022
The Xamarin Community Toolkit is a collection of Animations, Behaviors, Converters, and Effects for mobile development with Xamarin.Forms. It simplifies and demonstrates common developer tasks building iOS, Android, and UWP apps with Xamarin.Forms.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:215 reviews, 172 commits, 122 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Brandon's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the Xamarin Community Toolkit. They updated target framework dependencies, added tests for .NET Core, and introduced new features such as `ChangeCanExecute` to `BaseCommand`. Additionally, they added `Func<bool> canExecute` parameter to `AsyncCommand` & `AsyncValueCommand` and implemented other improvements, demonstrating a focus on command execution and framework support. Furthermore, the user contributed to the sample application.
behaviorsxamarin-community-toolkituwpmaccatalystmobile-development
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