Adam Faur
McAllen, Texas, United States
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolAdam Faur is an adaptable environmental scientist and hands-on developer with 11 years of field and technical experience, based in McAllen, Texas. He blends practical field skills—GIS navigation, tree and plant identification, ground-penetrating radar, and lab instrumentation—with data analysis and software contributions, having implemented frontend and backend improvements in open-source projects like Zazu and refactored backend Rust code for Artichoke. Comfortable leading routine field operations or contributing in code, he follows SOPs closely while quickly learning new tools and standards. His background includes environmental research, insect production workflows, and wildfire- and wildlife-aware forestry work, giving him a rare mix of ecological domain knowledge and full-stack problem solving. Notably, he has applied disciplined data-logging and instrumentation practices both in the lab and in production software, bridging experimental rigor with pragmatic software fixes.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Environmental Science, Bachelor's degree, Environmental Science at The University of Texas Rio Grande ValleyHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Idea College Preparatory Donna
Github Skills (16)
javascript10
rust10
electron10
react10
ruby9
front-end-development9
crate9
programming-language9
rust-crates9
user-interface9
nodejs8
exception-handling7
launcher7
extensible7
coreos7
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
bayleeadamoss/zazu
Apr 2016 - May 2018
:rocket: A fully extensible and open source launcher for hackers, creators and dabblers.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:34 commits, 22 PRs, 44 pushes in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Adam contributed to the development of the Zazu launcher by implementing new features and fixing bugs across the frontend and backend. They added features such as keyboard and cursor events for result selection and implemented error handling to log exceptions, indicating work on both the user interface and underlying application logic. The user also modified the build process and documentation. This included the implementation of the prefix script block and modifications to the styling and functionality of the search input field.
linuxlauncherhackersrocketspotlight
artichoke/artichoke
Mar 2020 - Mar 2020
💎 Artichoke is a Ruby made with Rust
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR in 1 day
Contributions summary:Adam primarily focused on refactoring and improving the Artichoke project's backend code. Their contributions involved changes to function signatures, refactoring code to use `crate::backend::` instead of `artichoke_backend::`, and returning `Ok(())` after handling exceptions. They also addressed linter formatting errors and made corrections to the code to comply with clippy suggestions, resulting in cleaner and more maintainable code.
ruby-languagerust-applicationrustrust-crateruby
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