Chris Pulman
Senior Engineering Technologist at Associated Industrial Controls Solutions Ltd
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarChris Pulman is a Senior Engineering Technologist with decades of hands-on experience building industrial control and manufacturing software, now leading development at AIC Solutions to deliver high-efficiency .NET applications. He specializes in C# and reactive programming, integrating live data streams via SignalR and MQTT to create robust, testable systems that bridge OT and IT. A recognized Microsoft MVP, Chris actively contributes to prominent open-source projects like ReactiveUI and Refit, improving nullability support, bindings, and cross-platform builds. His background in electrical and systems engineering gives him practical insight into hardware-software integration that many pure software engineers lack. Colleagues rely on him to modernize legacy automation stacks while adopting pragmatic .NET upgrades and reactive patterns to boost reliability and observability.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (37)
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api-design10
restful-api10
testing10
net10
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xamarin10
dotnet10
mvvm10
netstandard10
netframework10
reactive-extensions10
databinding10
asp-net10
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
reactiveui/ReactiveUI.Samples
May 2021 - Jul 2022
This repository contains ReactiveUI samples.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:323 reviews, 8 commits, 307 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on resolving build issues and updating packages across multiple projects within the ReactiveUI samples repository. They addressed build failures related to Avalonia, Blazor, Win Forms, and WPF. The user also worked on fixing build issues for Uno UWP, iOS, and Android, along with updating the examples to leverage .NET 6 where possible. These updates involved changes to various project files and package dependencies.
reactiveuireactiveui-samplesdotnetreactivex
reactiveui/refit
Apr 2023 - Jul 2026
The automatic type-safe REST library for .NET Core, Xamarin and .NET. Heavily inspired by Square's Retrofit library, Refit turns your REST API into a live interface.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:221 reviews, 271 PRs, 283 pushes in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Chris's contributions primarily involve updating build targets, fixing build issues, and updating relevant packages within the Refit library. They also addressed issues related to merging and test failures. The code changes focus on modifying the `RequestBuilder`, `RequestBuilderImplementation`, and `RestMethodInfo` files and project files, indicating work related to API request building, processing, and configuration. The user's work included adding support for .NET 8, and removing a vulnerability.
dotnetrestrest-apiretrofittypesafe
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