José Torres
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Sitges, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolJosé Torres is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft with over two decades in IT and more than a decade contributing to the .NET and Xamarin ecosystems. He has led performance and reliability efforts for Visual Studio for Mac, worked across .NET Core and ASP.NET Core, and recently focuses on Azure connectivity and security. A prolific community contributor and author, he co-founded CatDotNet, maintains a mobile development portal and blog, and wrote two books on SQL Server Compact. His open-source work includes UI and build-output enhancements to the widely used MonoDevelop IDE, reflecting a blend of deep tooling knowledge and practical UX improvements. Based in Sitges, Catalonia, he pairs hands-on full-stack skills with team leadership and a long track record of modernizing enterprise architectures.
13 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BUP/COU, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, BUP/COU, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at IB Pere Vives VichCFGS, Desarrollo Aplicaciones Informaticas, CFGS, Desarrollo Aplicaciones Informaticas at IES Joan MercaderUOC (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)
English, Spanish, Catalan
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Github Skills (12)
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dotnet10
develop10
csharp10
front-end-development9
ui-design9
gtk9
uid9
debugging7
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mono/monodevelop
Nov 2017 - Jan 2020
MonoDevelop is a cross platform .NET IDE
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:303 commits, 93 PRs, 163 pushes in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:José primarily contributed to the MonoDevelop IDE, specifically focusing on the implementation and enhancement of the ErrorListPad and BuildOutputView features. Their work involved the creation of UI elements using Gtk and Xwt, and the integration of functionalities like search, navigation, and document handling for build output logs. They also made improvements to code structure, naming conventions and improved the performance of the UI related code.
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jtorres/monodevelop-1
Nov 2017 - Feb 2020
MonoDevelop is a cross platform IDE mostly aimed at Mono/.NET developers
Contributions:7 PRs, 6 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 2 months
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