Xavier Decoster
Lichtervelde, West Flanders, Belgium
Summary
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RockstarXavier Decoster is a technical leader and cloud-focused software engineer with nearly 20 years in the industry and 12 years of hands-on experience shipping developer tooling. A Microsoft veteran and co-founder of MyGet, he blends engineering depth with product and platform instincts, particularly around package management and NuGet ecosystems. He has contributed to NuGet documentation and client tooling—improving clarity, error handling, and async patterns—demonstrating a meticulous approach to developer experience. Based in Lichtervelde, Belgium, Xavier excels at bridging technical writing, back-end refactors, and cloud architecture to make complex systems more reliable and usable. Colleagues know him for quiet leadership: solving thorny consistency issues and improving contributor workflows that quietly raise product quality.
12 years of coding experience
English, French, Dutch
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
nuget10
markdown10
package-management10
markdown-it10
visual-studio10
dotnet-core10
csharp10
documentation10
dotnet9
net9
asp-net9
tfs9
api-design8
version-control6
package-manager6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
NuGet/NuGetDocs
Sep 2014 - Dec 2016
Former Documentation site for NuGet - now replaced by NuGet/docs.microsoft.com-nuget
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:130 commits, 69 PRs, 109 pushes in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Xavier primarily focused on improving the documentation of the NuGet project. Their contributions involved fixing broken links, updating image references, and correcting outdated information within the documentation pages. The user also updated the contribution guidelines, adjusted index rendering, and added a table of contents, ensuring a better user experience. Overall, the commits demonstrate a focus on maintaining the documentation's accuracy and clarity.
dotnetcsharpdocumentation-sitemicrosoftmicrosoft-docs
NuGet/NuGet.Client
Feb 2015 - Aug 2019
Client Tools for NuGet - including Visual Studio extensions, command line tools, and msbuild support. (Open issues on https://github.com/nuget/home/issues)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:53 commits, 67 PRs, 178 pushes in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Xavier primarily focused on refactoring and renaming NuGet client resources to improve consistency and clarity. They renamed classes and methods related to statistics and reporting abuse, and also added an async suffix to a method name. Further contributions include enhancing error handling and supporting multiple resources for the same type.
dotnetnuget-clpackage-managercommand-line-toolsmsbuild
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