Christopher Hornung is a mechanically trained project engineer and FAA-certified drone operator based in Fresno with 19 years of hands-on experience blending vehicle-forensic reconstruction, design optimization, and automated systems. A Fresno State Dean's Medalist who graduated with a 4.0 in Mechanical Engineering, he applies 3D laser scanning, photogrammetry, and simulation to investigate transportation accidents while also contributing to open-source tooling—improving resource management features in the well-known SharpDevelop IDE. Comfortable moving between fieldwork, controls and manufacturing, he has practical experience in CNC fabrication, controls engineering, and steering/brake design for competition vehicles. Outside engineering he produces drone-based real estate and marketing videos, offering drone mapping and end-to-end video production services that reflect a strong eye for technical storytelling. Always learning, he combines academic rigor with an eagerness to tackle multidisciplinary problems and scale efficiency across projects.
19 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Mechanical Engineering, 4.0, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Mechanical Engineering, 4.0 at California State University, Fresno
High School Diploma, GE, High School Diploma, GE at El Diamante High School
#develop (short for SharpDevelop) is a free IDE for .NET programming languages.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:91 commits in 3 years
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily worked on improving and maintaining the ResourceToolkit add-in for the SharpDevelop IDE. Their contributions focused on enhancing resource management features such as code completion, refactoring, and the UI for handling unused resources. The commits demonstrate efforts to improve performance, address bugs related to resource handling, and integrate the add-in with the ITextEditor component for the IDE.
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