Matt Ward
Software Engineer at microsoft
UK, United States
Summary
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RockstarMatt Ward is a seasoned software engineer with 20 years of experience, currently contributing to the Visual Studio for Mac team and based in the UK. He blends deep .NET expertise with a practical focus on developer tooling, having enhanced the SharpDevelop IDE and the AvalonEdit text editor to improve code completion, syntax highlighting, and multi-file format support. His contributions to the cross-platform XWT UI toolkit show a knack for polishing front-end behavior and platform-specific quirks, especially in GTK and macOS backends. Comfortable across full-stack, front-end, and back-end domains, he frequently tackles subtle bugs that improve developer productivity and UX. A long-term open-source contributor, he brings pragmatic problem-solving and attention to detail that benefit large IDE codebases.
20 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (44)
nuget10
text-editor10
converter10
net10
xamarin10
dotnet10
ui-design10
avalonedit10
netframework10
asp-net10
uid10
gtk10
mono10
visual-studio10
front-end-development10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
icsharpcode/SharpDevelop
Aug 2005 - Dec 2016
#develop (short for SharpDevelop) is a free IDE for .NET programming languages.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1990 commits, 8 PRs, 37 pushes in 11 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Matt contributed to the SharpDevelop IDE, focusing on the core functionality of the IDE, including code generation. The commits involved fixing WCF metadata project item issues and implementing EnvDTE-related API functionality, such as adding file items and supporting project file names. The user also added enhancements related to code completion features like the ability to generate code type from its full name or finding the class namespace.
dotnetrevit-apiprogramming-languagesshortcsharp
mono/xwt
Feb 2014 - May 2022
A cross-platform UI toolkit for creating desktop applications with .NET and Mono
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:21 reviews, 15 commits, 16 PRs in 8 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily focused on improving the user interface of the XWT toolkit. Their contributions involved fixing bugs related to focus, image rendering, and text rendering within the Gtk backend. They addressed issues with hyperlinks, combo box behavior on Mac, and search entry functionality, thereby enhancing the usability and visual consistency of the cross-platform UI toolkit.
dotnetuwpwindowsdesktop-applicationsmono
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