Winston De Jong
Teacher's Assistant, Designing For Impact Program at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Terre Haute, Indiana, United States
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Top SchoolWinston De Jong is a senior Computer Engineering student at Rose-Hulman with six years of hands-on experience spanning embedded controls, electrical work, and front-end software development. He has led feature development and triaged hundreds of PRs for the Files Community file manager and contributed UI improvements to the Windows Community Toolkit, demonstrating a knack for polished, accessible XAML-based interfaces. At General Motors he improved stamping press reliability with PLC ladder logic and electrical schematics, and in internships he has repaired hardware, automated shipping workflows, and supported automation installs—skills that bridge hardware and low-level software. Passionate about robotics and teaching, he has taught Python game development to high-schoolers and helps fellow students as a learning center supervisor and TA for design-oriented coursework. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, Winston often uncovers nonobvious safety and usability issues—like identifying a shorting ultrasonic sensor and improving folder icon accuracy—that make systems more robust and user-friendly.
6 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (15)
windows10
uwp10
windows-app-sdk10
winui10
user-interface10
csharp10
graphical-user-interface10
xaml10
dotnet-core10
human-interface10
fluent-design9
mvvm9
windows-sdk9
dotnet8
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
files-community/Files
Jul 2020 - Apr 2022
A modern file manager that helps users organize their files and folders.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:367 reviews, 177 commits, 173 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Winston focused on enhancing the Files app's user interface and user experience. They implemented and refined the functionality to use the escape key to close the properties window, and moved the code related to this to the appropriate files. Furthermore, they added a new feature that displays the correct icons for non-empty folders and made some UI corrections. These changes reflect a commitment to improving the usability of the file manager.
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CommunityToolkit/WindowsCommunityToolkit
Nov 2020 - Jun 2021
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:1 review, 8 commits, 2 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Winston primarily contributed to the UI aspects of the Windows Community Toolkit, focusing on XAML-based UI controls within the sample application. The commits demonstrate the implementation of features such as theme-aware error styles and integrating a theme listener for dynamic updates. The user also made adjustments to existing UI components and incorporated dispatcher queue functionality. Furthermore, the user worked on fixing issues with layouts, particularly related to `StaggeredLayout`.
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