David Cox is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building and modernizing web and backend systems across PHP, Java, and cloud-native stacks. He has driven product outcomes—like a revenue-influencing reporting feature at Automox—and led migrations toward event-driven microservices using Kafka, Spring Boot, and AWS Aurora. His background spans hands-on full-stack work, legacy modernization (COBOL to modern systems), DevOps/CI-CD, and performance-minded backend contributions to well-known open-source projects such as CodeIgniter and Laravel Nova extensions. Comfortable both leading teams and shipping code, he combines pragmatic engineering with a knack for improving developer ergonomics and security in production. Based in Pennsylvania, he’s equally adept at small-team craftsmanship and scaling systems for enterprise needs.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Information Systems, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Information Systems at State University of New York College at Buffalo
Regents Degree, Regents Degree at Hamburg High School
A Laravel Nova field container allowing to depend on other fields values
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:6 releases, 3 reviews, 21 commits in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:David primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of a Laravel Nova field container. Their contributions involved ensuring that child fields resolved correctly within the container. They added "dependsOnNot" functionality, refactored code for clarity, and addressed issues related to action requests. These changes focused on improving the dependency management and overall usability of the Nova field.
Jumpstart your CodeIgniter web applications with a modular, HMVC-ready, backend.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:12 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the template and theming aspects of the CodeIgniter-based web application, updating the templating system with new features like `content()`. They also updated the base CI framework to version 2.1.4, fixing bugs, and incorporating security enhancements. They also updated bootstrap to 2.3.2 and fixed css issues, updating the appearance of the admin section.
codeigniterweb-applicationshmvcjumpstartweb-app
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