Elija Hart
Owner Programmer at CodeWise LLC
Broomfield, Colorado, United States
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Elija Hart is an experienced software engineer and owner-founder with over 15 years in professional practice and more than 20 years building mobile, web, and desktop applications across diverse industries. He spent nearly a decade at Microsoft and Xamarin driving cross-platform UI frameworks—helping open-source Xamarin.Forms and later contributing to .NET MAUI, where he focused on iOS CollectionView behavior, sizing strategies, and memory-leak fixes. As owner of CodeWise LLC he blends hands-on development with contract work and code audits, choosing projects for technical interest and long-term maintainability. His background as a software architect and team lead honed rapid domain learning, API mapping across platforms, and pragmatic performance optimizations for constrained devices. Based in Broomfield, Colorado, he pairs deep platform-level experience with a developer’s eye for robust, testable UI components. Colleagues describe him as a practical problem-solver who prefers shipping durable solutions over flashy shortcuts.
15 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
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dotnet/maui
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
.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 (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:763 reviews, 303 commits, 554 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Elija primarily contributed to the iOS implementation of the .NET MAUI framework, focusing on enhancing the CollectionView control. Their contributions included fixing scrolling issues related to `MakeVisible` and the internal data structures, implementing and testing a new property (`ItemSizingStrategy`) related to item sizing, and addressing memory leaks that resulted in crashes when the control was used within a tabbed environment. They also addressed the handling of edge cases like showing or hiding elements, and incorporated updates to the layout management.
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Atreides07/Xamarin.Forms
Jul 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:251 commits in 1 year 3 months
xamarin-androidxamarinxamarin-forms
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