Farrokh Ghamsary is a Full Stack Engineer based in Lyon with 11 years of experience building web and desktop software and a strong interest in data mining and big data workflows. He combines practical engineering at companies like SoftAtHome and V3D with academic training in knowledge discovery from databases, turning research-stage analysis (Twitter event detection, sentiment analysis) into production-ready tools. An active contributor to the controlsfx JavaFX library, he has improved cross-version compatibility and maintainability by removing fragile internal dependencies and modernizing code style. Comfortable across UI, backend and data visualization work, he brings a curiosity for tooling and pragmatic refactors that keep long-lived systems healthy.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Coursera Online Class
Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Computer Software Engineering at University of Science and Culture
Master's degree, Information Technology, Master's degree, Information Technology at University Lyon 2
Master's degree, Knowledge Discovery from Databases, Master 2, Master's degree, Knowledge Discovery from Databases, Master 2 at Université Lumière (Lyon II)
High quality UI controls to complement the core JavaFX distribution
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:5 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Farrokh's contributions focused on enhancing the compatibility and maintainability of the controlsfx JavaFX library. They modified existing code to align with updates like JDK8u60. Furthermore, they addressed potential compatibility issues by removing dependencies on internal JavaFX classes. The user also refactored the code by replacing tabs with spaces and removing lambda expressions for broader compatibility.
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