Chad Joan
Self Employed at Software Consultant
Columbus, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolChad Joan is a pragmatic software consultant with 16 years of experience building tools, integrations, and migrations with a strong focus on usability, clear error messages, and practical unit tests. Based in Columbus, Ohio, he prefers the D programming language and has contributed documentation improvements to the D standard library (phobos), clarifying behaviors and modernizing examples to help other developers. His background in engineering physics gives him a methodical approach to problem-solving, and he consistently documents and tests his work to make software enjoyable to use. Outside of consulting he balances intense focus with creative hobbies—anime, gaming, and parkour—which reflect a blend of discipline and playful curiosity.
16 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science (A.S.), Associate of Science (A.S.) at Sinclair Community CollegeBachelor of Science, Engineering Physics, Bachelor of Science, Engineering Physics at The Ohio State University
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Github Skills (13)
dword10
dt10
documentation10
algorithms9
traits7
type-conversion7
gcc6
git6
gnu-toolchain6
dmd6
segmentation-fault6
optimization6
enums6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
dlang/phobos
Jun 2012 - Jul 2017
The standard library of the D programming language
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:12 commits, 4 PRs, 9 comments in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Chad primarily contributed to the project by improving documentation. Their commits involved clarifying the behavior of specific functions like `chomp` and `Unique`/`RefCounted`, fixing typos, and updating examples to use modern D language features like lambdas and UFCS. Additionally, they corrected documentation regarding algorithm complexity and updated examples to promote better floating-point comparison practices using `approxEqual`. These edits demonstrate a focus on enhancing the clarity and usability of the library's documentation.
c-programmingmetatype-conversionphoneticsglossary
chadjoan/xdc
May 2012 - Jun 2019
Contributions:30 commits, 4 pushes, 1 issue in 7 years 1 month
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