Don HO
Project Leader at Notepad++
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Don HO is a seasoned software project leader with 18 years of experience and the author/main maintainer of Notepad++, a widely used open-source text editor. Based in Paris, he blends long-term product stewardship with hands-on engineering, contributing to core maintenance tasks like plugin list management and build compatibility for the Notepad++ ecosystem. His career spans roles in security, smartcard personalization, and consumer-facing products at companies such as Dashlane and SYSTRAN, reflecting deep expertise in robust, production-grade software. Known for pragmatic attention to tooling and compatibility, he pairs a DESS in computer science with a rare combination of open-source prominence and enterprise engineering background.
18 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
DESS Logiciels fondamentaux, Informatique, DESS Logiciels fondamentaux, Informatique at Université Paris Cité
French, English, Chinese
Github Skills (10)
release-management10
c-language10
release-automation10
cprogramming-language10
resource-management10
version-control9
wp-api8
winapi8
ws-api8
visual-studio7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
notepad-plus-plus/nppPluginList
Jul 2018 - Dec 2022
The official collection of Notepad++ plugins.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:73 releases, 6 reviews, 96 commits in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Don primarily focused on maintaining and updating the Notepad++ Plugin List project. Their contributions involved releasing new versions, which mainly consisted of updating version numbers and related metadata in the `resource.h` file. They also removed an unused feature and corrected build settings and VS compatibility.
javascriptpluginpluginsnotepadrealms
donho/donho.github.io
Nov 2015 - Nov 2021
All about me
Contributions:52 commits, 1 PR, 51 pushes in 6 years 1 month
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