Scott Lovegrove
Software Developer at Ferret Labs
Poole, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolScott Lovegrove is a seasoned software developer with 14 years of experience building rich .NET and modern JavaScript front-ends, currently working on Todoist and Twist integrations and React-based UIs at Doist. He began as an indie entrepreneur founding Ferret Labs to publish Windows and Windows Phone apps, and remains an active Microsoft MVP with a strong background in XAML, Silverlight, WPF and Windows Phone development. A pragmatic full-stack contributor, Scott has improved back-end stability for OpenLiveWriter and added UX-focused features like parallax and custom icons to the Windows Community Toolkit, while also contributing refactors and API work to popular media-server projects Jellyfin and Emby. Based in Poole, England, he blends product-minded engineering with long-term open-source involvement and a knack for rescuing brittle code through careful refactoring and defensive checks.
14 years of coding experience
Bournemouth UniversityCorfe Hills
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
OpenLiveWriter/OpenLiveWriter
Dec 2015 - Jan 2019
An open source fork of Windows Live Writer
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:52 commits, 43 PRs, 28 pushes in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Scott primarily focused on maintaining and improving the backend functionality of the Open Live Writer project. Their commits demonstrate a focus on fixing potential errors by adding null checks to prevent exceptions, and on extending functionality with integration of blogger categories. They also made changes to ensure the correct handling of file directories and post saving. The user also refactored existing code, and made minor improvements.
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CommunityToolkit/WindowsCommunityToolkit
Jun 2016 - May 2017
The Windows Community Toolkit is a collection of helpers, extensions, and custom controls. It simplifies and demonstrates common developer tasks building .NET apps with UWP and the Windows App SDK / WinUI 3 for Windows 10 and Windows 11. The toolkit is part of the .NET Foundation.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:71 commits, 61 PRs, 59 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily contributed to the UI/UX aspects of the Windows Community Toolkit, focusing on the `HamburgerMenu` control. Their work involved adding a custom icon property, including XML documentation, and implementing a parallax scrolling behavior. The user also updated sample applications to demonstrate the new parallax feature and made minor code tidy improvements, demonstrating expertise in XAML and UI design within the context of UWP and WinUI.
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