Marco Minerva
Sviluppatore Software
Liguria, Italy
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Top SchoolMarco Minerva is a Microsoft MVP and seasoned .NET software developer with 19 years of experience delivering Microsoft-platform applications, consultancy, and training from his base in Liguria, Italy. He leads architecture and technical strategy with proven CTO and senior developer experience, guiding teams and shaping scalable solutions across startups and consultancies. As founder of Sharp Design he continues to design, build and teach .NET applications while balancing client work and public speaking/writing. An active open-source contributor, he strengthened incremental loading in the widely used Windows Community Toolkit—improving large-data handling in UWP and WinUI samples. A summa cum laude graduate from the University of Pisa, he combines deep academic roots with practical craftsmanship and a preference for thoughtful, well-architected applications.
19 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Laurea Specialistica, Information Technology, 110 e lode, Laurea Specialistica, Information Technology, 110 e lode at Università di Pisa
Italian, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
xaml10
uwp10
net10
dotnet-new10
dotnet10
mvvm10
asp-net10
dotnet-core10
csharp10
winui9
windows9
windows-app-sdk9
wpf8
visual-studio6
sqlite6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
CommunityToolkit/WindowsCommunityToolkit
Aug 2016 - Oct 2018
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:35 commits, 10 PRs, 65 comments in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Marco primarily contributed to the UWP toolkit by implementing features related to incremental loading. They introduced and refined components like `IIncrementalSource` and `IncrementalLoadingCollection`, enhancing the toolkit's ability to handle large datasets efficiently. Further commits involved re-architecting and optimizing existing components within the UWP toolkit, adding features such as loading callbacks and arguments, and updating samples to demonstrate best practices, solidifying the implementation and usability of the incremental loading feature.
mvvmwindows-sdkc-sharpcustom-controlswindows-10
marcominerva/DatabaseGPT
Oct 2023 - Jan 2025
Query a database using natural language
Contributions:6 releases, 8 reviews, 79 PRs in 1 year 3 months
azure-openaic-sharpchatgptopenaipostgresql
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