Gary Ewan Park

I have been an active member of the Stack Overflow community, answering questions on topics such as: - Chocolatey - Cake - GitVersion - GitFlow In 2021, I am currently within the top 2% of users on the site, with my reputation score having increased by around 3000 points.

I am one of the core contributors to the Cake project: https://github.com/cake-build/cake In 2021 we have shipped 6 releases of Cake, and we are currently getting ready to ship the 2.0.0 release (which includes support for .NET 6.0). Across it different platforms, Cake has over 24 million downloads: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake/ https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake.Tool/ https://chocolatey.org/packages/cake.portable

I am the primary maintainer of the GitReleaseManager project, which is a tool to help with the creation of release notes for your Open Source projects. In 2021, there were two new releases of GitReleaseManager. Across its different versions, this application has been downloaded over 300000 times. https://www.nuget.org/packages/gitreleasemanager/ https://www.nuget.org/packages/GitReleaseManager.Tool/ https://chocolatey.org/packages/gitreleasemanager.portable

Every Monday (when possible) evening (in the UK) I stream live on Twitch. Since the start of 2021, I have done 34 streams, covering topics like: * Chocolatey * Cake * GitHub Codespaces * Visual Studio Extensions * Cake.Bakery * Cake Addins * GitReleaseManager * Creating a new Azure Website My stream currently has 348 followers.

My YouTube channel currently has 331 subscribers, and I publish recordings of all my Twitch streams there. In addition, I create release videos for the open source projects that I help maintain and host them on the channel. Also, I try to create small instructional videos on how to use Chocolatey, Chocolatey GUI, and other open source projects.

I am the primary maintainer of the Chocolatey GUI project: https://github.com/chocolatey/chocolateygui Which is a GUI wrapper around the Chocolatey Package Manager. In 2021, we completed 5 releases of Chocolatey GUI, and this project now has over 1 million downloads: https://chocolatey.org/packages/ChocolateyGUI

I am the primary maintainer of the Chocolatey project: https://github.com/chocolatey/choco Which is a Package Manager for Windows. In 2021, there were 3 new releases of Chocolatey, which have so far been downloaded over 11 million times. Chocolatey as a project has been downloaded almost 250 million times. https://chocolatey.org/packages/chocolatey

I am the maintainer of the Cake.Recipe project, which is an opinionated set of build scripts for Cake. In 2021, there were two new releases of Cake.Recipe. This system is used as the primary mechanism for building the Cake Addins that exist within the Cake-Contrib Organisation on GitHub: https://github.com/cake-contrib Collectively, Cake-Contrib Addins have been downloaded over 42 million times: https://www.nuget.org/profiles/cake-contrib While Cake.Recipe isn't used for all of these addins, it is used for the majority of them