Claire Novotny
Technical Lead at Kostume Kult
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolClaire Novotny is a technical lead and seasoned software leader with 11+ years building scalable distributed systems, cloud-native services, and developer tooling across enterprise and open-source ecosystems. She has driven product and platform strategy at Microsoft—leading NuGet productization, reproducible builds, and a Sign CLI across teams—while also engineering high-throughput analytics and emergency CDN migrations. A pragmatic engineer-manager, Claire architects unified databases and DevOps pipelines, mentors teams, and has deep hands-on experience in .NET (including notable contributions to projects like Humanizer, Reactive Extensions, Refit and NuGetPackageExplorer). Her background spans finance, enterprise architecture, and community leadership as former Executive Director of the .NET Foundation, where she grew the organization and ran a global virtual conference. Based in New York, she combines product judgment, security-conscious design (patented work on software provenance), and a penchant for cleaning up tricky cross-platform build and serialization edge cases.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Sociology, BA, Sociology at Case Western Reserve University
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Github Skills (38)
nuget10
reactivex10
package-management10
css10
net10
http10
dotnet10
data-serialization10
refactor10
netframework10
serialization10
reactive-extensions10
asp-net10
dotnet-core10
html10
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
NuGetPackageExplorer/NuGetPackageExplorer
Mar 2020 - Dec 2022
Create, update and deploy Nuget Packages with a GUI
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:88 releases, 19 reviews, 424 commits in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Claire primarily focused on improving the codebase's quality by addressing nullability warnings, cleaning up code, and refactoring files. They updated the target framework to netcoreapp5.0 across multiple project files. Furthermore, the user implemented changes to the menu, added .NET 5 TFM's and added validation logic for source links when packages contain symbols, demonstrating an understanding of build processes and package management.
nuget-packagesguinuget-clientupdategui-application
reactiveui/refit
Mar 2020 - Feb 2022
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:3 releases, 15 reviews, 271 commits in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Claire's commits primarily involve refactoring and modifying the Refit library's internal code to address and fix code issues. The contributions focus on ensuring the library's reliability and correctness by implementing logic to handle edge cases, particularly related to URL formatting and the serialization/deserialization of HTTP content. They worked on enhancing the library's functionality to support different serialization methods, including XML content serialization. The contributions include tests to validate the fixes.
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