Blake Harms
Software Developer at Emerson Process Management
Katy, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBlake Harms is a software developer with a decade of experience building maintainable, well-designed systems, currently contributing at Emerson Process Management from Katy, Texas. A designer at heart, he focuses on doing things "the right way," balancing clean architecture with pragmatic solutions. His background includes consulting work at Wood Group Kenny where he honed client-facing delivery and systems integration skills. Blake is an active back-end contributor to open-source Lua addons, improving maintainability, adding flexible spell-setting modes, and introducing coroutine-based optimizations and robust error handling. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Houston and brings a developer’s eye for readability and long-term code health to production projects. Peers describe him as someone who blends thoughtful design sensibilities with hands-on refactoring discipline.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at University of Houston
English
Github Skills (10)
lua10
refactoring10
scripting10
addon10
refactor10
ffi9
optimization9
optimisation9
coroutines8
error-handling8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Windower/Lua
Mar 2016 - Apr 2020
Lua Addons and Scripts
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 19 commits, 9 PRs in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Blake primarily focused on improving the functionality and maintainability of the Lua addons and scripts within the repository. Their contributions involved refactoring the blue magic spell setting logic, including rewriting how spells are unset and set, adding the ability to set spells in different modes (clearfirst, preservetraits), and improving code readability. The user also addressed code style issues, and added error handling, and optimized by using coroutines.
luaneovimazerothcoreaddons
AkadenTK/superwarp
Jan 2019 - Aug 2022
Addon for Windower 4 for FFXI that allows text commands to utilize homepoint, waypoint and survival guide teleport npcs
Contributions:146 commits, 15 PRs, 119 pushes in 3 years 8 months
npcswaypointsurvivalffxiaddon
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