Dan Siegel is a seasoned cross-platform mobile and cloud consultant with over a decade of experience building and rescuing software projects, and he leads AvantiPoint while maintaining the widely used Prism Library. A Microsoft/Xamarin MVP and contributor to flagship projects like .NET MAUI and Uno Platform, he brings deep Xamarin/.NET MAUI expertise plus practical fixes to platform internals (iOS font loading, lifecycle and nullability improvements). He pairs hands-on development with operations and networking know-how, having led distributed teams for startups through multinational enterprises and offering managed services, audits, and training. Based in Roatán, Honduras, Dan also organizes the Xamarin Developer Summit and uniquely blends a LAMP-origin perspective with modern Azure, DevOps, and mobile-first design to quickly learn and align with clients’ business processes.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science (AS), Computer Software Engineering, Associate of Science (AS), Computer Software Engineering at Coleman University
Open-source platform for building cross-platform native Mobile, Web, Desktop and Embedded apps quickly. Create rich, C#/XAML, single-codebase apps from any IDE. Hot Reload included! 90m+ NuGet Downloads!!
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:70 reviews, 5 commits, 96 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Dan primarily focused on updating and refining project templates related to the Prism framework within the Uno Platform ecosystem. The commits show modifications to project files, including those for Android, iOS, macOS, UWP, and WebAssembly, to incorporate updated Prism versions and ensure compatibility. The changes involve package updates, platform-specific configurations, and adjustments to match the standard Uno template, indicating a focus on maintaining and improving the developer experience within the cross-platform framework. These updates often included code changes across multiple project types.
.NET MAUI is the .NET Multi-platform App UI, a framework for building native device applications spanning mobile, tablet, and desktop.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer
Contributions:4 reviews, 2 commits, 8 PRs in 19 days
Contributions summary:Dan contributed to the .NET MAUI framework by addressing font loading issues in iOS, specifically in the `Xamarin.Forms.Platform.iOS/Renderers/ImageRenderer.cs` file, and implemented lazy loading for system resources within the application's core components. The user added the `IWindowCreator` to the core files, and fixed some issues to ensure that the MAUI embedding extensions used the correct `TApp` type, which included fixes to the application lifecycle and the handling of obsolete code. They also removed references to concrete native host apps and addressed nullability in key areas of the iOS and Tizen platforms, making the code cleaner and more reliable.
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