“Brian Ball is the butter to my bread on the mobile team. Master of bindings, wizard of converters, and magician of custom renderers, I could count on him to make any page beautiful and pixel-perfect. Brian's long experience with Xamarin is immensely helpful - he always knows the right library to help with the situation and can fill me in on the community at any time Brian's skills expand far past what I can describe in any amount of words. Backend, frontend, architecture, or just around being a fun and interesting guy, I hope to work with Brian far into the future”
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Whoop! Just receive my Microsoft MVP award for the 10th year!! Huge thanks to the MVP team and community. #mvpaward
Whoop! Just receive my Microsoft MVP award for the 10th year!! Huge thanks to the MVP team and community. #mvpaward
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Returning from the office after two weeks can be scary. No, the workplace did not burn down. Yes, there are a ton of emails. No, a client did not…
Returning from the office after two weeks can be scary. No, the workplace did not burn down. Yes, there are a ton of emails. No, a client did not…
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Some days, the imposter syndrome hits harder than others. Constant thoughts come in rapid fire, like: -How am I qualified to make such an important…
Some days, the imposter syndrome hits harder than others. Constant thoughts come in rapid fire, like: -How am I qualified to make such an important…
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Havzzy
● Built a Xamarin Forms app for a startup in Real Estate, implementing the MVVM architecture with Prism and Unity framework.
● Develop support for social logins and an in-house Identity Server using JWT Tokens to authenticate resources on a custom API.
● Utilized Git-Hub for version control, connected to App Center for pipeline and Ad-Hoc deployments for third-party testers.
● Orchestrated the setup of app submissions for approval and deployment on App Stores (Apple and Google). -
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● Designed and developed a comprehensive E-Commerce site for a retail outdoors company using Microsoft Technologies and modern JavaScript frameworks, consisting of 4 distinct applications.
● Constructed the customer-facing website with ASP.Net Core, incorporating Material Design Elements for an enhanced UI.
● Implemented an Identity Server with Identity Server 4 and a Custom API using ASP.Net Core.
● Facilitated seamless updates to the dynamic site, enabling maintenance of products…● Designed and developed a comprehensive E-Commerce site for a retail outdoors company using Microsoft Technologies and modern JavaScript frameworks, consisting of 4 distinct applications.
● Constructed the customer-facing website with ASP.Net Core, incorporating Material Design Elements for an enhanced UI.
● Implemented an Identity Server with Identity Server 4 and a Custom API using ASP.Net Core.
● Facilitated seamless updates to the dynamic site, enabling maintenance of products, promo codes, orders, etc., through an admin interface built with VueJS and Vuex, communicating with the API and Identity Server.
● Established a pipeline within Azure DevOps, ensuring automated deployment to Azure App Services for streamlined development.
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