pat laplante

I've used git for over 7 years now. I've written git extensions to integrate with development workflow such as code-review (code-collaborator), jira integration and jenkins build CI. I've also written a ruby gem and helper command to initiate code review with smart bear code review tool.

I've been playing with C# since it was announced in early 2000s.... I started using it seriously in 2007. I was part of a research project at Kodak developing an client-server application. The client application was entirely done by me and it was done entirely in XAML and WPF (when it was still in beta). When writing code for embedded platform, I've used C# and XAML extensively to simulate the hardware, allowing me to test most of my firmware logics against simulated hardware. This ended up decreasing the integration time to get the firmware working once the hardware was available. Since the past 2 years, I've been doing enterprise mobile application using MonoTouch.

Did a few enterprise level iPad application. (not available on app store, distribute internally to the company only). I was hire as a consultant to write an iPad application, I ended up joining the company and became an iOS developer mentor in Objective-C. Later on, we started exploring with Xamarin technology (mono touch and monodroid) and we've since switch to C# as our main dev platform for mobile. using the MVVMCross library. I've created an free widget providing iOS sliding drawer (hamburger menu) in C#. My friend and I did a demo project to demonstrate how to to use that widget with MVVMCross. We even got a MVVMCross badge from Stuart (the creator of MvvmCross) ; http://slodge.blogspot.com/2013/07/awesome-sliding-menus-from-big-frank.html

team lead engineer/designer/developer on multiple c++ base project for windows UI application, mac UI application (carbon), embedded project (linux).

team lead engineer/designer on multiple c base project for embedded project, including linux kernels drivers.

Been writing and deploying rest services in javascript es6+++ using node js. more recently inside docker containers.