Kevin Ford
Owner at Mobile Nomad, LLC
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Ford is an independent mobile and machine learning consultant with over three decades of technical and leadership experience and 13 years focused on modern mobile development. He founded Mobile Nomad, creates LinkedIn Learning courses on .NET MAUI, Flutter, and on-device ML, and continues to deliver consulting work while traveling the Pan-American Highway. A long-time contributor to prominent .NET open-source projects like MvvmCross and CSLA, he has hands-on experience fixing memory leaks, improving cross-platform navigation, and extending Android-specific features. Kevin blends practical enterprise delivery—leading mobile practices and building CI-backed Blazor/CSLA solutions hosted in Azure—with an eye for emerging tech, notably generative AI and ML for mobile. His background spans advisory roles at Cognizant Softvision to practice leadership at Magenic, and he pairs an MBA in entrepreneurship with a pragmatic, developer-first approach.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, Entrepreneurship, MBA, Entrepreneurship at Babson F.W. Olin Graduate School of BusinessBachelor of Science (BS), Management Information Systems, General, Bachelor of Science (BS), Management Information Systems, General at Metropolitan State University
Github Skills (16)
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uwp10
net10
asp-net10
xamarin10
wpf10
dotnet10
csharp10
mvvm10
android10
dotnet-core10
mobile-development9
asp-net-core9
ios8
silverlight7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
MvvmCross/MvvmCross
Feb 2015 - Jun 2017
The .NET MVVM framework for cross-platform solutions, including Android, iOS, MacCatalyst, macOS, tvOS, WPF, WinUI
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 7 PRs, 43 comments in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Kevin made significant contributions to the MvvmCross framework, focusing on platform-specific implementations for Android, UWP, and WPF. They refactored code to support Xamarin Forms integration on iOS. They addressed memory leaks and implemented changes to improve navigation and view model handling across different platforms, improving the overall stability and usability of the framework. They worked across Android, UWP, and WPF platforms improving several activity types and fixing known issues.
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MarimerLLC/csla
May 2013 - Dec 2014
A home for your business logic in any .NET application.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 16 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily contributed to the CSLA .NET framework, focusing on updates, bug fixes, and enhancements. Their work involved modifying project files for different platforms such as Android and Silverlight. They added new Android-specific features and integrated with the core CSLA framework, also making changes to Android sample applications. Their contributions indicate a focus on maintaining and expanding the framework's capabilities across various .NET platforms.
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