Martin Woodward
Vice President Of Developer Relations
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMartin Woodward is Vice President of Developer Relations at GitHub with 13 years of experience bridging developer communities and product strategy. Previously he led the .NET Foundation and originally created Microsoft's organization on GitHub, demonstrating a knack for shaping large open-source ecosystems. Technically hands-on, he contributes to core projects like libgit2—improving code quality, licensing, and maintainability—and has worked across front-end and full-stack projects including Microsoft’s org site and Open Live Writer. Based in Belfast, he combines a physics degree from Durham with a pragmatic engineering approach, often focusing on the less visible but critical work—refactoring, compliance, and tooling—that keeps platforms reliable and welcoming to contributors.
13 years of coding experience
BSc Hons, Physics, BSc Hons, Physics at Durham University
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Github Skills (39)
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Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/microsoft.github.io
Jun 2014 - Dec 2015
Microsoft on GitHub
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:37 commits, 5 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Martin primarily focused on enhancing the front-end of the Microsoft on Github project. Their contributions include adding a favicon, incorporating a title for the organization JSON schema, and implementing UI elements. The user also addressed a redirect issue, making it more robust and ensuring W3C validator compliance. Additionally, they added a small UI element using the heart symbol.
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OpenLiveWriter/OpenLiveWriter
Dec 2015 - Feb 2016
An open source fork of Windows Live Writer
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 34 commits, 31 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Martin's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and features of the Open Live Writer project. They integrated NuGet packages into the application, and made multiple changes to the application framework, and update settings. The user also added and round-tripped labels for Google Blogger integration, indicating a focus on extending blog client capabilities. These contributions involve modifications to the application's core functionality and interactions with blog platforms.
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