Dan Rigby
Senior Software Engineer at GitHub
Morrisville, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolDan Rigby is a Senior Software Engineer with 16 years of experience building developer tools and platforms that scale for millions of users, currently doing impactful work at GitHub. He blends backend engineering, test automation, and build/release expertise—evidenced by contributions to notable open-source projects like Git Extensions, MonoGame, and the JabbR chat app. Dan has a pragmatic focus on cross-platform compatibility and developer experience, from Visual Studio project templates to installer and CI improvements. He’s also contributed to community curation and developer advocacy through PlanetXamarin, showing attention to detail beyond pure code. Based in Morrisville, NC, he pairs long-term technical depth with a knack for shipping small but high-leverage fixes (e.g., hashtag parsing, invite commands, installer paths). His background combines a BS from the University of North Florida with a track record of improving tooling that developers rely on daily.
16 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Science at University of North Florida
Spanish, English
Stackoverflow
17,623reputation
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76answers
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Github Skills (46)
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msbuild10
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xamarin10
dotnet10
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windows-xp10
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asp-net10
script10
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
planetxamarin/planetxamarin
Jan 2017 - Sep 2017
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Role in this project:
Community Manager / Developer Advocate
Community Manager / Developer AdvocateContributions:6 commits, 6 PRs, 1 comment in 7 months
Contributions summary:Dan primarily contributed to updating profile information within the `planetxamarin/planetxamarin` repository. Their commits demonstrate a focus on maintaining and improving the accuracy of contributor profiles, including details such as biographies, contact information, and website URLs. They also corrected a minor typo in the website footer, showcasing their attention to detail in content management and overall site quality. These actions contribute to the repository's goal of aggregating community content effectively.
rssaggregationnews-readerrss-feedcommunity-members
gitextensions/gitextensions
May 2012 - May 2016
Git Extensions is a standalone UI tool for managing git repositories. It also integrates with Windows Explorer and Microsoft Visual Studio (2015/2017/2019).
Role in this project:Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:21 commits, 4 PRs, 4 comments in 4 years
Contributions summary:Dan primarily contributed to the build and installation processes of the Git Extensions project. Their work involved modifying the WIX installer, including scheduling background native image generation and adding support for VS2013. They also addressed issues with plugin deployment, fixing paths in the Gerrit postbuild event and the copy_plugin.cmd script. Furthermore, they updated tools like ResGen.exe and al.exe to their .NET 4.0 versions.
repositoriesmicrosoft-visual-studiowindowsgit-clientgitextensions
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