Trevor Gau
President at Hugs Platforms
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTrevor Gau is a seasoned software engineer and entrepreneur with 11 years of experience building web platforms, UI frameworks, and developer tools for organizations including Microsoft and GitHub. He blends full‑stack expertise—contributing to high-profile open source projects like Fluent UI, Primer React, and the Azure DevOps node client—with a focus on accessibility, frontend quality, and backend integrations. At Microsoft and GitHub he worked on core web platform engineering and extensible tooling; more recently he founded Hugs Platforms to build niche hardware + ML-enabled products for the curling community. Active in local leadership, he serves as President of the Triangle Curling Club and has deep operational experience running a 300+ member nonprofit. Trevor combines pragmatic engineering with product instincts, and his unusual cross‑domain work (from CLI tooling to ML computer vision for sports timing) reflects a willingness to ship both infrastructure and consumer-facing systems.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (40)
accessibility10
azure-devops-server10
javascript10
react-components10
apidoc10
accessibilityservice10
ui-components10
component-development10
typescript10
user-interface10
ui-design10
react-component10
uid10
component-kit10
api10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/tfs-cli
Sep 2015 - Aug 2019
Cross-platform CLI for Microsoft Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio Team Services
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 290 commits, 66 PRs in 4 years
Contributions summary:Trevor primarily focused on the development of the cross-platform CLI for Microsoft Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio Team Services. They made changes to the build process and added features related to extension packaging, including a bypass validation option, and new argument types. The user also worked on integrating localization support and improved several commands within the project.
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microsoft/vsts-extension-samples
Apr 2015 - Feb 2018
Sample extensions for Visual Studio Team Services
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:73 commits, 19 PRs, 49 pushes in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Trevor primarily focused on updating and refining sample extensions for Visual Studio Team Services. They made changes to the build process, removing unnecessary checks, and updated existing samples. The user also modified various UI components including menus and context menus, demonstrating work in front-end development and user interface design. Furthermore, the user updated the SDK and related files.
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