Paul Vick
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarPaul Vick is a veteran language and tooling engineer with over a decade of experience building programming languages, compilers, and developer tools—from Microsoft Access and Visual Basic to JavaScript engines and Meta’s Hack. He specializes at the intersection of languages and data processing, with deep expertise in performance analysis and making how code is thought to run match how it actually runs. Paul has led major rewrites (notably the Visual Basic compiler for .NET) and contributed practical improvements to large open-source projects like the .NET Project System for Visual Studio, including adding .NET Core support and unit tests. Based in Seattle, he combines hands-on full‑stack development with a user-centered approach, delighting in enabling others to do things they hadn’t imagined. Colleagues know him as a pragmatic problem solver who thrives on teasing apart tricky performance puzzles and delivering robust, maintainable solutions.
12 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (15)
net10
asp-net10
csproj10
dotnet10
csharp10
visual-studio10
dotnet-core10
vnet9
vbnet9
testing8
bho6
default-value6
chakra6
compiler-construction6
expression-trees6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
dotnet/project-system
Mar 2017 - Jul 2017
The .NET Project System for Visual Studio
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 76 commits, 83 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Paul's contributions involve enhancing the .NET Project System for Visual Studio. They added support for .NET Core 2.0 by modifying target framework monikers and improved existing code by addressing naming inconsistencies. The user also integrated updates from an upstream development branch, potentially incorporating new features or bug fixes. Finally, they initiated and completed unit tests, suggesting a focus on code quality and maintainability.
dotnetvisual-studio-extensionfsprojcsprojfsharp
panopticoncentral/sdl-sharp
Nov 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:71 commits, 211 pushes, 15 branches in 2 months
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