Hermit Dave
Software Engineer at MailOnline
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarHermit Dave is a software engineer with 13 years’ experience building .NET applications, UWP and WinUI projects from London. He combines practical full‑stack development with a deep focus on developer tooling and reusable libraries, most notably contributing substantial refactors to the popular Windows Community Toolkit’s image caching system. As an Intel software partner and maintainer of the Coding4FunProjects toolkit, he bridges platform integrations and pragmatic engineering for Windows developers. Known for clean, serviceable refactors, he modernized image retrieval and storage flows using HttpClient and generic cache abstractions. Outside work he balances family life with a relentless curiosity—an admitted news junkie who enjoys keeping abreast of platform and ecosystem trends.
13 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (16)
uwp10
net10
asp-net10
caching10
dotnet10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
image-processing9
windows-phone9
windows9
xaml8
tcp-client6
timeout6
windows-runtime6
disconnect6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
CommunityToolkit/WindowsCommunityToolkit
Sep 2016 - Jan 2020
The Windows Community Toolkit is a collection of helpers, extensions, and custom controls. It simplifies and demonstrates common developer tasks building .NET apps with UWP and the Windows App SDK / WinUI 3 for Windows 10 and Windows 11. The toolkit is part of the .NET Foundation.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:218 commits, 147 PRs, 202 pushes in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Hermit primarily focused on refactoring and improving the ImageCache functionality within the Windows Community Toolkit, including creating a generic cache base and file/image caches. The user reworked the image caching system, introducing new classes and methods to handle image retrieval, storage, and potential download operations. In addition, the commits involved the addition of helper methods, the use of .NET standard HttpClient, and some code cleanup.
mvvmwindows-sdkc-sharpcustom-controlswindows-10
hermitdave/FrequencyWords
Aug 2016 - Feb 2022
Repository for Frequency Word List Generator and processed files
Contributions:1 review, 20 commits, 6 PRs in 5 years 6 months
word-listlist-generatorword-frequency
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