Joe Manke is a Senior Software Engineer based in Minneapolis with nine years of experience building cross-platform mobile apps, specializing in Xamarin/.NET MAUI for iOS. At Medtronic he advances healthcare mobile products and contributes to devops, documentation, and peer review, pairing clinical-minded reliability with pragmatic engineering. Previously he led end-to-end Xamarin.Forms development for multiple commercial apps, shipping reusable components across a product suite. An active open-source contributor, he’s improved Maps and WebView behavior in high-profile projects like dotnet/maui and xamarin/Xamarin.Forms, adding platform handlers, UI tests, and geometry features such as polylines and polygons. He combines deep mobile UI/platform knowledge with a penchant for making native platform behaviors predictable and testable.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at South Dakota Mines
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Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Contributions:20 commits, 23 PRs, 146 comments in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Joe primarily contributed to the Xamarin.Forms.Forms repository, focusing on the iOS platform, specifically improving the Maps component. Their work includes enhancing the MapRenderer to enable greater customization of pin rendering, implementing the MapClicked event, and providing fixes for issues related to pin rendering. The user also addressed issues related to the WebView component, making it more robust and adaptable for inheriting classes. Furthermore, the user made changes to the MapGallery page in XAML.
.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)
Contributions:2 comments, 1 issue in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Joe primarily contributed to the iOS implementation of the .NET MAUI Maps feature. Their work involved extending the `MapRenderer` class, adding customization options for pin rendering with the `CreateAnnotation` and `GetViewForAnnotation` methods, and integrating new events such as `MapClicked` and implementing the appropriate platform specific handlers. The user also addressed pin property changes and updated native pin controls, ensuring that changes made to the pin data are reflected in the native map view. Further contributions involved adding UI tests and the integration of polylines and polygons to the Map features.
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