Matthijs Woord
Software Developer at MarYor | software & consultancy
Vreden, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolMatthijs Woord is a pragmatic software developer with 15 years of experience building .NET-based systems for businesses, consultancy clients, and his own company. He combines hands-on product work—ERP-like systems, IoT projects, and system administration tools—with open-source contributions to notable projects like Cosmos (OS construction kit), Avalonia, and the Uno Platform. His open-source work spans kernel-level library enhancements, cross-project refactoring to ensure consistent assembly versioning, and bug fixes in C#/XAML rendering and source generation, showing both low-level and UI/ tooling expertise. As co-founder and co-chair of The Cosmos Project since 2007 and owner of ter Woord Computers, he blends entrepreneurial initiative with long-term community stewardship. Based in Vreden, Germany, he brings a steady record of shipping reliable solutions and resolving complex merge and build-system issues that many developers overlook.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Bedrijfskundige Informatica, Bachelor of Science - BS, Bedrijfskundige Informatica at Saxion University of Applied Sciences
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Github Skills (26)
xaml10
net10
dotnet-new10
dotnet10
cross-platform10
kernel10
asp-net10
csproj10
kernel-mode10
dotnet-core10
uno-platform10
wpf10
csharp10
avalonia10
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
CosmosOS/Cosmos
Dec 2014 - Nov 2018
Cosmos is an operating system "construction kit". Build your own OS using managed languages such as C#, VB.NET, and more!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 580 commits, 85 PRs in 4 years
Contributions summary:Matthijs focused on enhancing the functionality of the operating system "construction kit" (Cosmos). They contributed by adding and improving libraries to the kernel's environment to enable and expand capabilities. Their code changes involved adding core level libraries to the system.
csharpoperating-system
AvaloniaUI/Avalonia
Jul 2017 - Dec 2017
Develop Desktop, Embedded, Mobile and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML. The future of .NET UI
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:29 commits, 19 PRs, 10 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Matthijs primarily focused on refactoring the Avalonia UI project to use a shared assembly information file across multiple subprojects. Their commits involved modifying various project files (csproj) and associated assembly information files to reference the shared file. This change ensured consistency in versioning and related assembly attributes throughout the project. The user also addressed merge conflicts from multiple branches integrating these changes into the main project.
csharpdotnetmobilewebassemblyxaml
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