Brett Story
Software Engineer III at MiTek Industries
Ballwin, Missouri, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrett Story is a seasoned Software Engineer III with 11 years of experience building .NET/C# applications and UIs, currently designing software at MiTek Industries after prior roles at Boeing. He combines production work on WPF and MVC with active open-source contributions to Avalonia, improving core text rendering and input controls for a widely used cross-platform .NET UI framework. Based in Ballwin, Missouri, he brings deep front-end and desktop expertise alongside a hobbyist focus on game development, audio processing, and personal utilities showcased on his site. Known for thoughtfully extending core UI elements like LineHeight in TextBox/TextPresenter, Brett blends pragmatic engineering with a penchant for polishing user-facing details.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Missouri State University
Github Skills (9)
text-rendering10
windows-gui10
csharp10
xaml10
avalonia10
dotnet-core10
desktop10
mvvm9
textbox9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
AvaloniaUI/Avalonia
May 2022 - May 2022
Develop Desktop, Embedded, Mobile and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML. The most popular .NET UI client technology
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Brett focused on enhancing the Avalonia UI framework, specifically related to text rendering and input components. They implemented and refined the `LineHeight` property in both `TextBox` and `TextPresenter` controls. Further contributions involved merging code and addressing issues within the calendar and testing functionalities. The user demonstrates expertise in modifying and extending core UI elements.
c-sharpiosmobileuwpavaloniaui
Macabresoft/Macabresoft.Core
Aug 2020 - Jan 2025
Contributions:17 releases, 35 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 5 months
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