Don Thorp
President Owner at ZWave, LLC
Kerrville, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolDon Thorp is a seasoned software architect and serial entrepreneur with 17+ years building startups and leading engineering teams across mobile, ad tech, and platform companies. As President/Owner of ZWave and founder of multiple ventures, he has hands-on experience designing payment systems, operating remote data centers, and managing the full stack from embedded C++ to Java, Ruby, and JavaScript. He has led large engineering organizations at Millennial Media/AOL/Verizon and revitalized platform teams at Appcelerator, where his mobile UI contributions (notably to the Titanium SDK) improved Android and iOS developer experiences. Comfortable toggling between code, operations, and business—he has formed S-Corps/LLCs, managed accounting and legal processes, and even set up remote offices and networks. Based in Kerrville, Texas, he combines pragmatic system administration with deep architecture instincts and a track record of turning prototypes into saleable products.
16 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Bixby High SchoolBSCS Computer Science, BSCS Computer Science at Texas Christian UniversityChemistry, Chemistry at Oral Roberts University
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Github Skills (9)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
tidev/titanium-sdk
Jun 2009 - Dec 2011
🚀 Native iOS and Android Apps with JavaScript
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:1477 commits in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Don primarily focused on implementing and modifying UI elements for the Titanium SDK, especially in the context of mobile apps. They worked on Android-specific features such as implementing a menu for activities and supporting a range of visual features for buttons and table view items. They also contributed to enhancements, such as supporting customizable font styles and handling dynamic changes, and performed code refactoring and improvements. Their efforts were centered around improving the UI of Titanium-based mobile applications, particularly on Android.
nativeandroid-appsmobile-developmentreact-nativejavascript
kandanapp/kandan
Feb 2013 - Sep 2013
Contributions:17 commits in 7 months
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