DavideĀ Giacometti
Greater Padova (Padua) Metropolitan Area Italy
Summary
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RockstarDavide Giacometti is a .NET-focused software engineer with nine years of hands-on experience based in the Greater Padova area of Italy. He specializes in backend development and has contributed to high-profile open-source tooling, improving PowerToys' launcher folder plugin to better handle network paths, forward slashes, and environment-variable-expanded paths. Davide combines a pragmatic approach to system utilities with attention to edge-case correctness, making search and path handling more robust for Windows power users. Comfortable working across existing codebases, he excels at shipping incremental, high-impact fixes that improve reliability and developer experience. He brings a passion for practical solutions in the .NET ecosystem and a track record of contributing to widely used tools.
8 years of coding experience
English, Italian
Github Skills (11)
asp-net10
net10
filesystem10
dotnet10
csharp10
file-operations10
fileio10
dotnet-core10
ws-api9
winapi9
wp-api9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/PowerToys
May 2020 - Jan 2023
Windows system utilities to maximize productivity
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:230 reviews, 120 commits, 265 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Davide primarily focused on improving the functionality of the launcher application, specifically the folder plugin. They addressed issues in how network paths and system commands are handled, including supporting paths with forward slashes and allowing environment variables in paths. These changes involved modifications to the folder plugin, ensuring correct handling of different input formats, and the use of environment variables to improve the search functionality.
fancyzoneswindowspowerrenameproductivitymaximize
davidegiacometti/PowerToys-Run-GitKraken
Apr 2023 - Feb 2025
Contributions:7 releases, 14 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 10 months
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