Michael Stonis
President Xamarin Mobile Development at Eight-Bot, Inc.
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Stonis is a veteran integration and mobile engineering leader with 12+ years building enterprise solutions across healthcare, industrial, startups and state government. As President of Eight-Bot and an 8x Microsoft MVP, he blends hands-on .NET/MAUI and Xamarin mobile development with deep expertise in SOA, ESB, BizTalk and healthcare integration. He’s known for turning siloed applications into automated, highly integrated systems that reduce operational friction and unlock data value. An active open-source contributor, Michael has helped modernize prominent .NET projects—updating Xamarin.Forms/MAUI clients and enhancing ReactiveUI’s Android support—demonstrating pragmatic cross-platform skills. He pairs technical authorship (MAUI eBook) with leadership in consulting and product delivery, making him equally comfortable mentoring teams or resolving thorny build-and-integration problems.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Management of Computer Systems, IT Application & Network Development, Management of Computer Systems, IT Application & Network Development at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
English
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Github Skills (24)
dependency-management10
maui10
net10
xamarin10
dotnet10
net-maui10
asp-net10
xamarin-forms10
android10
dotnet-core10
csharp10
reactiveui10
ios9
xamarin-android9
mvvm8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
dotnet-architecture/eshop-mobile-client
Jun 2021 - Nov 2022
eShop mobile & desktop client built with .NET MAUI
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer
Mobile DeveloperContributions:102 commits, 6 PRs, 15 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on updating the project's dependencies, specifically updating Xamarin.Forms to version 5. This involved modifying various project files (csproj) across Android, iOS, and core projects to reflect the new package versions. The commits show the user addressing build issues and refactoring code for the transition to a new version of Xamarin.Forms, indicating a focus on mobile application development using .NET MAUI.
react-nativeandroidgraphqleshopdotnet
reactiveui/ReactiveUI
Dec 2014 - Aug 2018
An advanced, composable, functional reactive model-view-viewmodel framework for all .NET platforms that is inspired by functional reactive programming. ReactiveUI allows you to abstract mutable state away from your user interfaces, express the idea around a feature in one readable place and improve the testability of your application.
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:27 commits, 6 PRs, 18 comments in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the Android-specific support components within the ReactiveUI framework. They implemented the `ReactiveFragmentActivity`, adding reactive features to `FragmentActivity` from the Android support library, and made namespace adjustments for fragments. The user also addressed build issues and removed unused references related to the Android support project, improving the project's build configuration.
reactiveuimvvmexpressmutableios
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