Elson Smith
Application Programmer Analyst
Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolElson Smith is an application programmer analyst and full-stack software engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building and maintaining integrations, web applications, and infrastructure for higher education and commercial clients. Based in Illinois, he manages complex ecosystems at Northern Illinois University—ranging from Blackboard and Kaltura to Azure App Registrations and dozens of custom C# LTI and API integrations—while also running freelance LAMP and VPS operations. He brings a hybrid skill set spanning C#, PHP/Laravel, JavaScript, WordPress, Windows and network troubleshooting, and has open-sourced niche tools like an AMD GPU timing strap modifier and various web utilities. Known for tackling both low-level device communications and large-scale web integrations, Elson pairs practical operational ownership with a knack for pragmatic, performance-minded engineering.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Information Technology- Network Management, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Information Technology- Network Management at Westwood College of TechnologyNorthern Illinois University - College of Business
Github Skills (19)
wordpress10
wordpress-plugin10
staging9
dotnet9
branches9
trac9
silent9
version-control9
asp-net8
linux8
sms8
asp-net-core8
csharp8
windows7
stingray7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ecs87/AMD-GPU-Tool
Jun 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:18 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
ecs87/PHP-Musicoin-Pool-Monitor
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 15 days
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