Marco Minerva
Sviluppatore Software
Liguria, Italy
Summary
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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
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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 (10)
Github contributions (5)
CommunityToolkit/WindowsCommunityToolkit
Aug 2016 - Oct 2018
ARCHIVE - New Repo: https://aka.ms/toolkit/windows
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/PeopleFinder
Sep 2019 - Mar 2020
Enrich Azure Cognitive Search index with Face Cognitive Service, Azure Maps & Exif Metadata and access all the information within a UWP client
Contributions:20 commits, 9 pushes in 6 months
azure-cognitive-searchazure-mapsexifuwpazure
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