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Max Katz

Over the past 18 months, this developer contributed to JetBrains/Avalonia and AvaloniaUI repositories, delivering 64 features and 24 bug fixes focused on cross-platform UI development, build automation, and developer tooling. They modernized rendering pipelines, enhanced input handling, and improved packaging and deployment processes using C#, .NET, and XAML. Their work included refactoring Android and iOS integrations, optimizing CI/CD workflows, and expanding documentation for onboarding and advanced features. By implementing robust diagnostics, AOT-compatible bindings, and new APIs, they improved runtime reliability and developer experience. Their technical depth is evident in areas like API design, asynchronous programming, and cross-platform system integration.

Overall Statistics

Feature vs Bugs

73%Features

Repository Contributions

147Total
Bugs
24
Commits
147
Features
64
Lines of code
25,893
Activity Months18

Work History

March 2026

7 Commits • 4 Features

Mar 1, 2026

March 2026 performance summary: Delivered developer-facing APIs, strengthened AOT compatibility, and enhanced CI/CD automation, with expanded documentation to accelerate onboarding. The work reduces runtime variability in headless scenarios, improves binding robustness on AOT platforms, speeds up builds, and improves developer experience across Avalonia projects.

February 2026

2 Commits • 1 Features

Feb 1, 2026

February 2026 monthly update for AvaloniaUI/avalonia-docs: delivered targeted docs improvements to reflect the new licensing directory structure and corrected Windows path formatting to enhance clarity for developers. Implemented through two commits that directly improve license handling guidance and cross-platform usability, reducing potential user confusion and support overhead.

January 2026

4 Commits • 3 Features

Jan 1, 2026

January 2026 monthly summary for AvaloniaUI/avalonia-docs: Key features delivered, major fixes, impact and skills demonstrated. 1) Key features delivered: - WebView Printing and PDF Export: Added ShowPrintUI and PrintToPdfStreamAsync methods in NativeWebView, enabling user-facing print dialog access and asynchronous PDF data generation (commits d46413293efa14ecdd53204ce6597f7ba87a8922; 104624c89ff2f23ee91c0008ea69a1d13b46bd00). - Sidebar Developer Shortcuts Category: Implemented a new navigation category in the sidebar to improve developer onboarding and navigation (commit 7c2d884d95cb25695a47da61b6d481e633756864). - Documentation Updates for MCP and Parcel MCP: Updated DevTools MCP docs and clarified Parcel MCP docs to improve setup and usage guidance (commit 615e96a789d60ef67b71b08880b549daa46406fc). 2) Major bugs fixed: - No major bugs fixed this month. Focus was on feature delivery and documentation improvements. 3) Overall impact and accomplishments: - Expanded end-user capabilities with WebView printing and PDF export, enabling print workflows and offline document generation. - Improved developer experience and onboarding with a new Sidebar Shortcuts category. - Clarified documentation for MCP and Parcel MCP, reducing setup time and support questions, and contributing to faster feature ship cycles. 4) Technologies/skills demonstrated: - WebView integration and asynchronous PDF generation, ShowPrintUI and PrintToPdfStreamAsync usage. - Frontend/navigation enhancements via accelerate-sidebar.js. - Documentation excellence and cross-repo collaboration through MCP-focused docs updates. Business value: The feature and documentation work accelerates end-user workflows, reduces onboarding time for developers, and lowers support overhead by making MCP usage clearer, supporting faster delivery cycles in AvaloniaDocs.

December 2025

8 Commits • 5 Features

Dec 1, 2025

December 2025 monthly review for AvaloniaUI across Avalonia (AvaloniaUI/Avalonia) and avalonia-docs (AvaloniaUI/avalonia-docs). The team delivered tangible features, addressed critical issues, improved performance, and enhanced developer experience through build tooling, design-time UX, and comprehensive documentation. The work positively impacts product stability, speed of iteration, and onboarding for new contributors.

November 2025

7 Commits • 3 Features

Nov 1, 2025

Concise monthly summary for 2025-11 focusing on stability, productivity, and maintainability across AvaloniaUI and docs. Delivered key features in test/build infrastructure, removed non-core integration to simplify the codebase, and refined developer tooling guidance to improve onboarding and CI reliability. Result: more reliable tests, faster builds, cleaner repo, and clearer release communication.

October 2025

14 Commits • 3 Features

Oct 1, 2025

October 2025 performance summary focusing on key outcomes across core Avalonia and docs teams. Delivered feature updates, stability fixes, and comprehensive packaging/onboarding documentation across Windows/macOS/Linux, enabling faster builds, improved reliability in netcore deployments, and clearer developer guidance for cross-platform packaging and integration.

September 2025

10 Commits • 3 Features

Sep 1, 2025

September 2025 monthly summary highlighting key features delivered, major bug fixes, and overall impact across Avalonia repositories. Focused on delivering business value through improved documentation, safer deployment practices, reliability improvements, and default performance-oriented bindings.

August 2025

4 Commits • 4 Features

Aug 1, 2025

August 2025 monthly summary across two repositories (JetBrains/Avalonia and AvaloniaUI/avalonia-docs). Focused on delivering performance-oriented code changes, enhanced app lifecycle integration, and improved developer onboarding through documentation. No major customer-facing bug fixes were reported in this period; the work emphasizes business value through build efficiency, lifecycle integration, and clearer guidance for packaging/notarization and cross-platform compatibility.

July 2025

6 Commits • 3 Features

Jul 1, 2025

July 2025 performance and documentation improvements across Avalonia projects focused on UI components, rendering performance, and documentation quality to boost onboarding, consistency, and developer productivity. Highlights include a new GroupBox UI control with Fluent and Simple themes, a SkiaSharp 3.0 upgrade for modernized rendering, targeted documentation and repository standardization, and corrected WebView documentation to reduce confusion and integration errors. These efforts improve maintainability, cross-team collaboration, and overall product quality.

June 2025

14 Commits • 6 Features

Jun 1, 2025

June 2025 monthly summary across Avalonia projects focusing on packaging and deployment improvements, build reliability, Android rendering modernization, interop correctness, and developer documentation enhancements. Delivered concrete releases with cleaner packaging, streamlined CI/CD, and a modernized Android rendering stack, enabling faster release cycles and more reliable cross-platform behavior.

May 2025

11 Commits • 4 Features

May 1, 2025

May 2025 monthly summary for JetBrains/Avalonia, AvaloniaUI/AvaloniaEdit, and avalonia-docs focusing on delivering user-centric features, reliability improvements, and developer productivity. Highlights include CI/CD modernization, input-handling enhancements, iOS optimization, runtime robustness fixes, dependency upgrades, and documentation clarity improvements. Delivered across three repositories with traceable commits, enabling faster iteration and improved stability for downstream projects and end users.

April 2025

19 Commits • 4 Features

Apr 1, 2025

April 2025 performance summary: Enhanced developer onboarding and tooling documentation across Avalonia docs and Sentry .NET integration. Delivered organized, decision-grade documentation features with accompanying build/config changes, and implemented opt-out for Sentry Native to reduce footprint. Notable efforts focused on improving onboarding, licensing clarity, toolchain migration notes, and navigation/structure to support faster developer adoption and lower support load.

March 2025

4 Commits • 4 Features

Mar 1, 2025

March 2025 monthly recap for JetBrains/Avalonia and AvaloniaUI/avalonia-docs. Key features delivered improved observability, data binding robustness, and cross-platform consistency. There were no major bug fixes reported in the scope provided, but platform handle standardization and documentation cleanliness reduce future support and maintenance needs. Overall, the month delivered tangible business value through enhanced diagnostics, more flexible XAML bindings, and streamlined developer tooling and docs.

February 2025

8 Commits • 3 Features

Feb 1, 2025

February 2025 (2025-02) monthly summary: Delivered key features and stability improvements across JetBrains/Avalonia and AvaloniaUI/avalonia-docs. Implemented XAML ecosystem enhancements (diagnostic AVLN2208 and ensuring required assemblies load for the SRE XAML loader), added FontSize validation for TextElement, fixed the ArgumentException message spacing, and completed documentation cleanup to remove outdated themes/docs and refresh navigation. These contributions improve runtime reliability, developer tooling experience, and documentation quality, enabling faster feature delivery and fewer user-reported issues.

January 2025

4 Commits • 3 Features

Jan 1, 2025

January 2025 performance summary: Delivered targeted UI and stability improvements across Avalonia, with a focus on robust popup rendering, smooth user interactions, and accurate platform documentation. Maintained build stability through dependency upgrade and reinforced cross-repo quality with unit-tested features and bug fixes.

December 2024

11 Commits • 4 Features

Dec 1, 2024

December 2024 monthly summary: Delivered performance improvements, stability fixes, and cross-platform input enhancements across Avalonia projects. Highlights include (1) Performance optimization: inlining ProvideValue for ResolveByNameExtension and StaticResourceExtension to reduce allocations and enable compiler inlining, (2) BoolConverters.Not: added two-way conversions with tests to improve reliability, (3) Cross-platform input sizing: added Pen pointer type to DefaultPlatformSettings and aligned Win32 mouse/tap metrics for consistent touch/pen input, (4) Rendering robustness: introduced NonPumpingLockHelper.Use in SyncCommit to prevent potential deadlocks and race conditions during synchronous rendering, (5) AvaloniaEdit improvements: XAML rendering/binding fixes for Rider and CI/build stability updates from TextMateSharp.

November 2024

12 Commits • 7 Features

Nov 1, 2024

November 2024: Focused on delivering business value through enhanced designer fidelity, broader platform support, and graphics reliability. Achievements include designer feature exposure, robust pen input, .NET 8 multi-targeting for Avalonia.Browser, flexible TimePicker formatting, and headless snapshot reliability — all contributing to faster UI iteration, wider platform coverage, and more stable rendering across environments. Supporting work on SkiaSharp/HarfBuzz, Windows caption-button hit-testing, and WebAssembly runtime adjustments further strengthened the graphics stack and CI workflows.

October 2024

2 Commits

Oct 1, 2024

Oct 2024: Focused on reliability, cross-platform compatibility, and modernization of Avalonia to deliver tangible business and developer value. Delivered targeted fixes to ensure .NET 9 WASM runtime compatibility and modernized Windows automation with improved COM interop and accessibility, reducing runtime errors and improving developer experience across platforms.

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Quality Metrics

Correctness95.6%
Maintainability94.6%
Architecture94.4%
Performance92.4%
AI Usage21.6%

Skills & Technologies

Programming Languages

BashC#C++IDLJavaScriptMarkdownObjective-C++ShellXAMLXML

Technical Skills

.NET.NET.NET developmentAI integrationAPI DesignAPI DevelopmentAPI ManagementAPI RefactoringAndroid DevelopmentAndroid NDKAppKit FrameworkAsynchronous ProgrammingAvaloniaAvalonia FrameworkAvalonia UI

Repositories Contributed To

6 repos

Overview of all repositories you've contributed to across your timeline

AvaloniaUI/avalonia-docs

Nov 2024 Mar 2026
17 Months active

Languages Used

JavaScriptMarkdownYAMLBashC#XMLShell

Technical Skills

CI/CDDocumentationFront End DevelopmentGitHub ActionsDocumentation ManagementAvalonia UI

JetBrains/Avalonia

Oct 2024 Oct 2025
12 Months active

Languages Used

C#XMLObjective-C++YAMLXAMLC++IDLMarkdown

Technical Skills

Build SystemsC# DevelopmentCOM InteroperabilityCode GenerationCross-Platform DevelopmentDependency Management

AvaloniaUI/Avalonia

Nov 2025 Mar 2026
3 Months active

Languages Used

C#MarkdownXMLJavaScriptYAML

Technical Skills

.NET.NET developmentAvalonia FrameworkBlazorC#C# development

AvaloniaUI/AvaloniaEdit

Dec 2024 May 2025
2 Months active

Languages Used

XAMLXMLcsprojC#YAML

Technical Skills

CI/CDDependency ManagementFront-end DevelopmentIDE IntegrationUI DevelopmentXAML

AvaloniaUI/angle

Jun 2025 Jun 2025
1 Month active

Languages Used

XMLYAML

Technical Skills

Build ManagementBuild SystemsCI/CDNuGet Packaging

getsentry/sentry-dotnet

Apr 2025 Apr 2025
1 Month active

Languages Used

C#XML

Technical Skills

Build SystemsConfiguration ManagementSoftware Engineering