Sandy Strong
Retired at Self-employed
Gary, South Dakota, United States
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Top SchoolSandy Strong is a seasoned product manager and test lead with 20 years of experience specializing in ERP applications, quality assurance, and R&D for Dynamics 365 and related .NET ecosystems. She has led SDET teams, run testing organizations at Microsoft and insurers, and served as scrum master and product owner while authoring user manuals and training programs. Her hands-on engineering contributions to notable open-source projects like Mono, MonoDevelop, Roslyn, and SparkleShare reflect deep familiarity with cross-platform .NET tooling and practical fixes that improve macOS integration and editor functionality. Sandy combines technical troubleshooting—porting code to newer macOS APIs and resolving build issues—with strong process design, having established SDLC best practices and testing frameworks across multiple companies. Now retired and based in Gary, South Dakota, she continues to engage in code-level improvements and mentorship rooted in a background that spans biology lab research through advanced management studies. Colleagues describe her as a pragmatic problem-solver who bridges product strategy and low-level engineering details.
20 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BA biology major / chemistry minor, BA biology major / chemistry minor at University of Minnesota MorrisRedfield High SchoolMasters in Management, Masters in Management at University of Mary
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roslyn10
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Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
mono/xwt
Jan 2019 - Oct 2022
A cross-platform UI toolkit for creating desktop applications with .NET and Mono
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 reviews, 24 commits, 18 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Sandy's contributions primarily involve modifying and updating the Xwt.XamMac project, a cross-platform UI toolkit for .NET and Mono. They have focused on adapting the project to changes in the macOS workload, addressing API breaks and migrating code to use newer APIs. Their work includes porting existing code to use ObjCRuntime and updating code to use NativeHandle, and also includes fixing a typo and a variety of other minor fixes.
desktop-applicationdotnetui-toolkit
mono/monodevelop
Feb 2011 - Jan 2020
MonoDevelop is a cross platform .NET IDE
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:586 commits, 179 PRs, 235 pushes in 9 years
Contributions summary:Sandy's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the MonoDevelop source editor functionality, specifically within the C# development environment. They implemented features like allowing subclasses to modify loaded/saved text, adding file events to the file service, and adding and modifying code related to image service. Their work also involved fixing line endings, adding options, and making adjustments for editorconfig support. The user's contributions include improvements to the editor's core functionality and integrations.
dotnetidemonodevelopc-sharp
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