Muhammad Rehan Saeed
Software Engineer at Microsoft
United Kingdom, Pakistan
Summary
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RockstarMuhammad Rehan Saeed is a software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently contributing at Microsoft and active in open source, blogging, and YouTube. Based in the UK with roots in Pakistan, he focuses on .NET back-end development and developer tooling, improving project templates, GraphQL servers, and dependency automation for large monorepos. His contributions to well-known projects like Renovate and Dotnet-Boxed showcase practical work on cross-repo configurations, HTTPS/security guidance, and workflow discovery for CI. He also brings full-stack sensibility, adding cross-platform console enhancements and Visual Studio templates that streamline developer productivity. Known for pragmatic refactors and clear documentation, he combines production-focused fixes with features that make other engineers’ lives easier. Beyond code, he communicates technical ideas publicly, amplifying impact through tutorials and blog posts.
11 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (63)
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asp-net-core-mvc10
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Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
Dotnet-Boxed/Templates
Oct 2014 - Sep 2022
.NET project templates with batteries included, providing the minimum amount of code required to get you going faster.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:38 releases, 17 reviews, 2136 commits in 8 years
Contributions summary:Muhammad made several changes to the .NET project templates, improving the development experience. They added comments to address browser security warnings when using self-signed certificates in development. Additionally, they removed and/or added code related to HTTPS configuration, including HSTS and enabling HTTPS ports. They also fixed a build-related issue and updated the documentation by adding links to the release notes and a discussion on the use of `rel="noopener"` links for security and performance.
project-templatesbatteriesc-sharptemplatedotnet-new
tomakita/Colorful.Console
Dec 2015 - Jul 2016
Style your .NET console output!
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 6 PRs, 3 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Muhammad significantly contributed to the project by adding functionality and refactoring existing code. They added Figlet Fonts and Ascii Art, enhancing the console output capabilities. The user upgraded to .NET Core 1.0 and cross-platform support and added Netstandard 1.5. Furthermore, they refactored existing code by creating ColorExtensions.ToNearestConsoleColor extension methods.
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