Steve Hawley

Northampton, Massachusetts, United States

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Steve Hawley is a seasoned software engineer with over 8 years of recent professional experience and a long career stretching back to early work at Adobe and architectural roles at Atalasoft. He has deep expertise in image/PDF technologies, cross-platform Apple and .NET integrations, and has driven migrations to modern .NET platforms—evidenced by contributions converting Xamarin attributes for .NET 6 compatibility in the widely used dotnet/macios bindings. Steve has held senior engineering and architect roles at Microsoft, Xamarin, and startups, and continues to consult while listed as retired, based in Northampton, MA. He blends low-level systems craftsmanship (PostScript, Acrobat indexing) with modern cloud and mobile back-end development, making him effective at bridging legacy systems and modern frameworks. Notably, his open-source work impacts macOS/iOS bindings that enable C# developers to target Apple platforms, a niche but high-leverage area. He holds a BA in Computer Science from Oberlin College and brings pragmatic, long-term thinking to software modernization challenges.

7 years of coding experience

29 years of employment as a software developer

BA Computer Science, BA Computer Science at Oberlin College

French, Japanese

Github Skills (8)

net10

asp-net10

macos10

dotnet10

ios10

csharp10

dotnet-core10

xamarin9

Programming languages (1)

Github contributions (5)

dotnet/macios

Jan 2022 - Jan 2023

.NET for iOS, Mac Catalyst, macOS, and tvOS provide open-source bindings of the Apple SDKs for use with .NET managed languages such as C#

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer

Contributions:727 reviews, 70 commits, 172 PRs in 11 months

Contributions summary:Steve's commits focus on converting attributes for .NET 6 compatibility across several source files. This primarily involves modifying the code to use `SupportedOSPlatform`, `UnsupportedOSPlatform`, and other .NET-specific attributes, while removing the older Xamarin-specific attributes like `[iOS]` or `[Mac]`. The changes impact several components related to iOS and macOS, including those within the MediaPlayer, SensorKit, VideoToolbox, and XKit libraries. This work appears to be a migration effort to ensure compatibility with .NET 6 and later versions.

dotnettvoscsharpiosxamarin

xamarin/binding-tools-for-swift-reflector

Jan 2020 - Jan 2021

The Swift Programming Language

Contributions:7 reviews, 14 PRs, 14 pushes in 1 year 1 month

swift-programmingswift-programming-languageprogramming-languageswift

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