Miguel de Icaza

Mexican free software developer

Miguel de Icaza made a career in technology at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.

The record lists Miguel de Icaza as Mexican free software developer.

Miguel de Icaza was born at Mexico City in 1972. His recorded nationality is Mexico. He was educated at National Autonomous University of Mexico.

Modern careers are conducted in public and at speed, with reputations formed and revised far faster than the work itself changes.

The record gives his occupations as software developer, engineer and programmer.

His affiliations include Xamarin, Microsoft and Ximian.

The work that carried his reputation furthest concerned starting the GNOME, Mono, and Xamarin projects. Technical work compounds - each layer makes the next one cheaper to attempt.

His recorded fields of work are software developer.

His work was formally recognised with the FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software.

Working from Mexico shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.

Miguel de Icaza is still at work, and the final assessment has not been made - the ordinary condition of a living career.

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