hello

🙌 I'm Geoff. Some folks know me as the person who “stole” all and for my involvement with a letter to the United States Congress to address the crypto industry.

Others may know me through my work in open-source and working with developer tooling companies to bring their products to market. Computers are one of my hobbies, and I've been continually self-learning in this sector since the early '80s. When I'm not authoring code, you will find me DJing or sharing my knowledge with others.

how can I help you

By being a servant leader for your existing team (or building a team around me), help with interviewing and providing mentorship.
Development of software and product features (including their specs)
Site reliability engineering and creation (or maintenance) of infrastructure.
With developer tooling such as build systems, code review systems, and internal development environments
Supporting open-source development and guidance with best practices
Establishing your security vulnerability disclosure program
Competitive analysis in marketing and strategic management
Converting marketing activities into sales leads and ownership as a technical sales engineer.
Authoring educational content and resources that go viral
Hawkeyed management and monitoring of Social Media
Delivering in-person talks and workshops
Coordinating, hosting, and attending meetups internationally
Building brand awareness and affinity
Building and management of community programs
Evaluation of developer sentiment and delivering feedback to internal teams
Triaging product issues and responding to community members with technical product fixes

how you can help me

schedule a coffee chat

Interested in catching up for a coffee chat? Use https://ghuntley.com/meet to set up the meeting.

company a vs company b

The list below isn't by priority, but it is the thought process I use when deciding between company A and company B.

Compensation - Will I be comfortable with the compensation package, and how will it enable me to achieve my personal goals?

Interest - What is the problem to be solved? Is the work that you need help with engaging? Am I interested in solving those problems? Will I be excited enough to ignore the speed limit and go all in?

People—While interviewing, did I enjoy the conversations? How long did it take to fast-forward to shoot the shit (mutual radical candour) and riff about challenges/exploring solutions?

Regret—I ask myself, "Would I regret not working at this company with its people and product X years from now?"

Remote—Is the entire company on board and structured for it? What is the timezone coverage? Will I need to temporarily relocate to another country for a couple of quarters to expedite onboarding and relationship building?

Growth—What are the trends in your industry? Has the company expanded or contracted recently? Do potential coworkers have a growth mindset?

Revenue—Due to near-free capital over the last couple of years, many companies are not (yet) sustainable or are walking zombies. Has the company overhired? Is there a product-market fit? What will it take to reach PMF?

Risk—Smaller companies naturally have more risk. I personally think we tend to over-index on risk (Prospect Theory) and forget about the lessons and professional development that happen at a start-up. I thrive in entrepreneurial environments and doing things that no one else has done or thought of yet.

hobbies

In the interest of expediting getting to know each other, I've included some personal information about myself that we can chat about when we catch up.

unicycling

In my twenties I rode a unicycle through many countries (Vietnam, India, Nova Scotia, Kenya and Tanzania) for funsies with a bunch of other eccentric engineers.

Ride the Lobster was the world's longest unicycle race, held in June 2008. A 800-kilometre international relay race around the roads of Nova Scotia,

lighting + laser technician and DJ

A renewed interest in electronic music has started a story arc in music production. DJing is cool, but I prefer programming lights and lasers.

#vanlife

With my father's help, we built a pretty kick-ass van, which is my home when I'm based in Australia.

remote work

I am a nomad. For the last four years, I've worked remotely and have provided services for clients in America (Austin, San Francisco, New York), Canada (Montreal) and Europe (Denmark, Germany, London, Portugal).

Remote work is one of the criteria I search for when taking on a client:

Is the entire company on board and structured for it?
Which departments in an organisation are in which time zones? What is the timezone coverage?

And finally...

Will I need to temporally relocate to another country for a couple quarters to expedite onboarding and relationship building?

media

I often chat with the media about issues relating to open-source software, either as a result of the research I've been involved in or as an independent voice on topical issues.

This ranges from commentary in online pieces to radio and national news. Much of the time, this is in a very consumer-centric context where I explain technology for the "layman," that is, I put technical concepts in language that anyone can consume.

I am a member of the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance and follow the IFJ Global Charter of Ethics for Journalists. I've worked with many global publications over the years, including:

public speaking

I have had the privilege of speaking at community events and large technical conferences, recording sessions with prominent YouTubers within the Microsoft CH9 studio, and delivering guest lectures at Australian universities.

public speaking never gets easier but you do get better each time you do it.

youtubers

1.4M views @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_VsgT5gfMc

technical conference circuit

https://2023.everythingopen.au/schedule/presentation/3/

a casual late night fireside chat on software developer environments

workshops

I am the author of three workshops.

how to build a coding agent

Learning how to build a coding agent is one of the best things you can do for your personal development in 2025, as it teaches you the fundamentals. Once you understand these fundamentals, you'll move from being a consumer of AI to a producer of AI who can automate things with AI.

See https://ghuntley.com/agent

nix/nixos for developers workshop

Nix is a powerful package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible. It provides atomic upgrades and rollbacks, side-by-side installation of multiple versions of a package, multi-user package management and easy setup of build environments.

NixOS is a Linux distribution with a unique approach to package and configuration management. Built on top of the Nix package manager, it is completely declarative, makes upgrading systems reliable, and has many other advantages.

NixOS workshop @ComposeMelb #melbcompose19 pic.twitter.com/euu86pm3u0
— (have-YER Candeira) for you for your cousin (@candeira) September 2, 2019

The workshop is released under an MIT license and is available at https://github.com/ghuntley/ghuntley/tree/trunk/workshops/nixos-workshop

introduction to the Uno Platform

With the Uno Platform, you can empower your existing .NET teams to build beautiful, performant, single codebase and cross-platform web, mobile and desktop apps. In this single-day intensive workshop, you will be introduced to the development philosophy of Uno and will build a new application from scratch that uses this philosophy. You'll also learn productivity tips and how Uno works under the hood.

Great @UnoPlatform workshop by @GeoffreyHuntley and @carldebilly #UnoConf @ajpinedam @lesterbotello @Arieldlossantos @jjcolumbie pic.twitter.com/NitbEt9cOs
— Hector (@HectorMinaya) September 20, 2019

The workshop is released under an MIT license and is available at https://github.com/unoplatform/workshops

servant leadership

Small teams with a maximum of six people are my preference. Below, you'll find a blog post that goes into detail about inheriting a team of functional programmers + computer scientists and business transformation through selflessly serving the team and removing historical leadership debt.

mentorship

authoring technical content

open-source

The term "open source" has a particular meaning, yet people (and companies) continually get it wrong. I'm a fan of free software and have been active in the open-source/free software scene since the early 2000s, but almost twenty years have gone by, and now society has problems with sustainability (which manifests as supply chain security issues).

The truth is that free software isn’t "free." How much will a task cost in person hours? Hours have rates, and rates require payment. Yet, an entire community of developers provides their services outside of their day jobs to produce tools consumed by businesses.

I often wonder what the future would look like if these high achievers that our digital society is built upon were empowered to become independent artists. If just one of those people can help more people better understand a technology or improve the developer experience for an entire ecosystem what is the worth/value of that and why isn’t our industry doing that yet?

The word volunteer, by definition, means those who have the ability and time to give freely.Paying for resources that are being consumed broadens the list of people who can do open-source. Additionally, money enables open-source maintainers to buy services and outsource the activities that do not bring them joy.

The settlement of my property was funded through GitHub Sponsors. I've delivered talks (and podcasts) on this topic, authored blog posts, and raised $32,600 USD for open-source maintainers distributed mathematically optimally, which ensured that the popular "well-known" projects didn't emerge as absolute winners.

Geoff's tireless efforts at improving ReactiveUI in areas that most would shirk away from are invaluable. Automating the build, streamlining project management, and formalising documentation infrastructure were all his doing. He was also instrumental in getting ReactiveUI adopted by the .NET foundation, helping to secure its future. As if that wasn't enough, he has worked hard to grow the community, spreading the word via talks at user groups and through online channels. Always welcoming to newcomers, and always focused on community, ReactiveUI would not be what it is without him. Thanks, Geoffrey - you're truly an inspiration to me.

Kent Boogaart (Author of You, Me and ReactiveUI)

software development

desktop application development

For six years, I was the lead and core maintainer of ReactiveUI, which is the father of the extremely popular ReactiveCocoa framework. ReactiveUI is a composable, cross-platform model-view-viewmodel framework for all .NET platforms that is inspired by functional reactive programming, which is a paradigm that allows you to express the idea around a feature in one readable place, abstract mutable state away from your user interfaces and improve the testability of your application.

The platforms supported include Avalonia, Xamarin Forms (aka MAUI), Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Android, Xamarin.Mac, Samsung Tizen, Windows Forms, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Universal Windows Platform (UWP), and the Unoplatform.

mobile application development

Telstra 24x7 (iOS, Android, Windows Phone), Ansarada AiDA, South32 ROAM

Over the years, I've developed mobile applications at companies such as Telstra, South32, Ansarada, and Interactive using various approaches, including cross-platform (React Native, Xamarin) and native.

devops and operating systems

My personal infrastructure is managed via a custom iPXE provisioned, NixOS and terraform. At Coder, I was responsible for developing Terraform templates for all the different cloud providers. As an early employee at Gitpod, I was their sole site-reliability engineer in the JAPAC region while the primary EU timezone was sleeping.

Over the years, I've administered and supported nearly every operating system out there: Slackware Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, AIX, OpenVMS, HP/UX, Debian, Ubuntu and NixOS.

internal developer platforms

security

marketing

This is a great set of tips for dev marketing and can confirm you see some interesting referer domains in the logs that can help guide your GTM team https://t.co/tqMfEzP0cu
— Beyang (@beyang) March 9, 2023

competitive and industry analysis

current roles

Principal Software Engineer at Amp.

previous roles

Technology Lead at Canva.
Principal Developer Advocate at Gitpod, Coder and Uno Platform
Software Engineering Manager at Ansarada
Staff Mobile Application Developer at Telstra and South32
State Manager of GovHack
Lead Consultant at Readify and Noon
Co-founder of WeeklyXamarin
Open-source maintainer and project leader of ReactiveUI
Senior Developer / Mobile Application Developer at Interactive
Senior Midrange Field Engineer at Interactive
Principal Backup/Recovery and Midrange Consultant at Synergy/Hyro
Midrange Field Engineer at TRT
Founder of WaveOfDestruction.org
Organiser of Sydney Gamers League
Mainframe Operator at Unisys

mainframes rock

Computer Repair Technician at CAM1 Computers