Mikayla Hutchinson
Designer Maker at Lucent Forge
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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RockstarMikayla Hutchinson is a designer-maker and seasoned software engineer with 20 years of experience building cross-platform .NET tooling, UI toolkits, and developer-facing infrastructure. Based in Somerville, MA, she blends full-stack engineering with practical design sensibilities at Lucent Forge, while contributing to high-profile open source projects like Mono, Roslyn, and Gtk#. Her work shows a pattern of improving stability and developer experience—fixing memory leaks, refining debugger and process handling, and advancing Language Server Protocol features for richer editor integrations. Equally at home in native UI and backend code, she’s contributed notable improvements to ADAL authentication for Mac/iOS as well as GTK and Xamarin.Mac portability. Outside of code she’s a hobbyist gamedev, silversmith, baker and rat mom, and she builds tools aimed at helping others create delightful things.
20 years of coding experience
English, German, French
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Github Skills (45)
xamarin-mac10
debugging10
debug10
ios10
roslyn10
net10
memory-management10
authentication10
user-authentication10
dotnet10
language-server-protocol10
xamarin-ios10
cairo10
asp-net10
language-server10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
mono/xwt
Sep 2012 - Jul 2018
A cross-platform UI toolkit for creating desktop applications with .NET and Mono
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:31 commits, 4 PRs, 1 push in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Mikayla primarily focused on improving the Xwt UI toolkit, specifically its GTK backend. Their contributions include fixing memory leaks in container management and improving context menu positioning. They also addressed issues in the GTK markdown rendering, along with fixing several memory leaks related to Cairo. Additional contributions involved porting the project to Xamarin.Mac 2.0.
dotnetuwpwindowsdesktop-applicationsmono
mono/mono
Aug 2005 - Jan 2019
Mono open source ECMA CLI, C# and .NET implementation.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:185 commits, 27 PRs, 6 pushes in 13 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Mikayla contributed to the Mono project by addressing several issues related to the soft debugger and process handling. The commits included bug fixes to prevent crashes on Windows systems with redirected console output, improvements to the asynchronous connection methods in VirtualMachineManager, and adjustments to the Socket.Dispose method. The user also implemented support for custom transports within the Mono.Debugger.Soft component.
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