Tyson Hooker
Senior Software Developer at Gearbox Fleet Maintenance Software
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolTyson Hooker is a Senior Software Developer based in Sydney with a decade of experience building mobile-first solutions and fleet maintenance products. He has progressed from product design and teaching roles into specialist mobile development, contributing platform-specific fixes and accessibility improvements to the popular Xamarin.Forms popup plugin and shipping Android/iOS apps for companies like Coates and LogChecker. At Gearbox he now focuses on fleet maintenance software, blending hands-on mobile engineering with product-minded thinking gained from earlier web and design work. Known for a pragmatic, bug-first approach (as his Github quip “0 to SegFault in under 6 seconds” hints), he excels at diagnosing tricky platform regressions and ensuring cross-platform stability.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Macarthur Anglican SchoolBachelor of Computer Science Major in Enterprise System Development Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science Major in Enterprise System Development Computer Science at University of Wollongong
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Github Skills (11)
xamarin10
xamarin-forms10
ios10
android10
popup10
accessibility9
dotnet9
net9
asp-net9
nuget6
uwp4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rotorgames/Rg.Plugins.Popup
Sep 2020 - Dec 2021
Xamarin Forms popup plugin
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)Contributions:7 reviews, 33 commits, 18 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Tyson primarily contributed to the Xamarin.Forms popup plugin, focusing on platform-specific implementations and bug fixes. Their work involved adapting the plugin to address compatibility issues arising from .NET 5 pre-release changes, particularly in the iOS and Android platforms. The user also addressed regressions and implemented accessibility improvements, modifying platform-specific renderers and extensions to ensure proper functionality and user experience across different mobile platforms. The contributions included modifying code related to Android and iOS rendering, keyboard handling, and accessibility.
uwpcustom-popupandroidxamarinios
LuckyDucko/AwaitablePopups
Jan 2020 - Dec 2021
Customisable Popups for Xamarin Forms
Contributions:66 commits, 21 PRs, 105 pushes in 1 year 10 months
asyncpopup-pagecustomisablexamarin-librarynuget
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