Elizabeth Smith
Contributor at E M Smith Computer Consulting
Sturgis, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolElizabeth Smith is a versatile software engineer and open-source contributor with 19 years of experience building cross-platform web, desktop, and systems software. She favors C-family languages and brings deep hands-on expertise in PHP and C, having contributed to PHP on Windows and to notable projects like the vlucas/valitron validation library. Elizabeth blends application architecture, extension development (PHP, nginx, Apache), and OS-agnostic tooling across Windows, Linux, BSD, Solaris, and macOS to make open-source tools work seamlessly for end users. As a freelance owner and former senior engineer, she has architected APIs, reduced technical debt, and supported high-throughput, mission-critical systems processing millions in transactions. Known for meticulous bug-fixing and test-driven improvements, she focuses on reliability and developer ergonomics as much as feature work. She codes out of curiosity and a pragmatic desire to solve problems and make other people’s jobs easier.
19 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
English Sociology, English Sociology at Western Michigan University
Github Skills (7)
unit-testing10
php10
validation10
validations10
validators10
testing10
debug9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
vlucas/valitron
Jun 2017 - Jun 2017
Valitron is a simple, elegant, stand-alone validation library with NO dependencies
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 3 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Elizabeth contributed to bug fixes and testing within the Valitron validation library, which is written in PHP. Their work primarily focused on resolving issues related to data validation rules, particularly those involving arrays and subfields. The user also added tests to ensure the fixes were effective and to prevent future regressions, improving the library's reliability. Specifically, their contributions addressed cases where the library failed when handling array values in the context of `slug` validation or `required` rule evaluation.
dependenciesstand-alonevalidationstandphp
eosforphp/structures
Jun 2015 - Jun 2017
Contributions:44 commits, 1 PR, 39 pushes in 2 years
datastructuresphpphp-extensionsextensionssupporting
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