Doug Hutcheson
Software Engineer
Olympia, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDoug Hutcheson is a seasoned software engineer with deep roots in telecommunications R&D dating back to AT&T Bell Laboratories and nearly three decades of experience before retiring from AT&T. With nine years of modern software engineering practice and an enduring developer mindset since 1980, he focuses on back-end development and practical maintenance of web applications. He has contributed bug fixes, refactors, and CSV/configuration improvements to the popular Open Source Point of Sale project, improving data imports and code quality in a PHP/CodeIgniter codebase. A Stanford M.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and a long history at Bell Labs give him a rare blend of rigorous engineering training and hands-on legacy-system knowledge. Based in Olympia, Washington, he enjoys learning new languages and continually updating his toolbox to bridge decades-old systems with contemporary open-source practices.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of FloridaMaster of Science (M.S.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Stanford University
Github Skills (8)
php10
codeigniter10
mysql9
point-of-sale9
inventory-management-system8
inventory-management8
bootstrap5
reporting-services4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
opensourcepos/opensourcepos
Sep 2023 - Feb 2024
Open Source Point of Sale is a web based point of sale application written in PHP using CodeIgniter framework. It uses MySQL as the data back end and has a Bootstrap 3 based user interface.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 23 PRs, 16 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Doug primarily contributed to bug fixes and improvements within the PHP-based CodeIgniter framework. They addressed issues related to string interpolation, configuration, and CSV imports, specifically within the context of point-of-sale functionalities. Additionally, they refactored language files, and modified controllers, and views. The user also introduced code to remove backup files and improve overall code quality within the application.
point-of-saleuser-interfacecodeignitersalemysql
owlbrudder/railstraining
Feb 2024 - Feb 2024
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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