Robin Zwirtz
President at BirdDog Software Corp
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobin Zwirtz is a technology executive and President with 30+ years of experience uniting manufacturing, distribution, accounting, and software development into practical, automated solutions. Based in Oklahoma City, he specializes in eCommerce, ERP middleware, and automation, and is known for turning difficult projects into delivered results through strong public speaking and project leadership. As a hands-on contributor to notable open-source .NET/F# projects like FAKE and Paket, he improved build tooling, caching, and NuGet v3 support—work that underpins reliable dependency and build systems used across the .NET ecosystem. His background managing manufacturing operations and nonprofit finance gives him a rare cross-disciplinary perspective that aligns technical design with operational and financial realities.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Grace Christian AcademyBS Computer and Information Sciences General, BS Computer and Information Sciences General at Southern Nazarene University
Github Skills (17)
nuget10
package-management10
net10
dotnet-new10
dotnet10
package-manager-tool10
asp-net10
regular-expression10
build-automation10
fsharp10
package-manager10
caching9
file-processing8
file-handling8
file-access8
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
fsprojects/Paket
Oct 2015 - Mar 2020
A dependency manager for .NET with support for NuGet packages and Git repositories.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 13 PRs, 70 comments in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Robin primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the Paket dependency manager. They implemented support for NuGet v3 API, including the necessary code changes to interact with the API endpoints and parse data. The user also addressed versioning issues, and resolved bugs related to package resolution. Furthermore, the user worked on improving the caching mechanism for packages.
dependency-managerdotnetnuget-packagepaketnuget
fsprojects/FAKE
Jun 2015 - Apr 2016
FAKE - F# Make
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:18 commits, 15 PRs, 47 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Robin primarily focused on improving the FAKE build tool, addressing globbing issues and implementing caching mechanisms for compiled build scripts and regular expressions. Their work involved modifying core files related to globbing and FSI script execution, along with refactoring caching logic for enhanced performance. Further contributions included handling and improving assembly loading and dependencies within the FAKE build system.
fsharpdotnetcsharpdotnet-core
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