Fox Piacenti
Full Stack Business Developer at OpenCraft
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFox Piacenti is a Full Stack Business Developer with 14 years of experience building products, teams, and revenue streams from Houston, Texas. He blends hands-on engineering—shipping MVPs and full e-commerce platforms like Artconomy—with leadership of large open source projects and cross-functional teams, having led 20 contributors and delivered an MVP a sprint early at OpenCraft. Fox’s contributions span backend engineering, test automation, and technical writing across notable open-source projects such as Evennia and Open edX, and he has driven multimillion-dollar institutional deals with clients like ASU and Harvard. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, he balances elegant technical solutions with practical business impact, having eliminated costly processes and engineered profitability improvements in legacy systems. An entrepreneur at heart, he also runs a solo-built marketplace that processes significant annual sales and cultivates active community engagement.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (22)
database-migrations10
javascript10
restructuredtext10
openedx10
python10
django10
testing10
rs10
telnet10
database-migration10
jasmine10
documentation10
data-communication9
networking9
net9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
openedx/edx-platform
Aug 2014 - Feb 2021
The Open edX LMS & Studio, powering education sites around the world!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:11 reviews, 301 commits, 113 PRs in 6 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Fox's commits primarily focus on testing the functionality of discussion and library components within the Open edX platform. They wrote Jasmine tests to verify the behavior of the NewPostView, including cohort selector visibility and the effects of various settings. Additionally, they added tests for library pagination, ensuring XBlock display and navigation function correctly. The user also addressed code changes related to library functionality, and testing is a prominent focus throughout the contributions.
edxlmssitesbackend-serviceopen-edx
evennia/evennia
Jun 2012 - Apr 2017
Python MUD/MUX/MUSH/MU* development system
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:151 commits, 37 PRs, 58 pushes in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Fox primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Evennia MUD system. Their work involved fixing bugs related to telnet communication, migrating database schema for enhanced lock storage, and addressing issues with handling user login, including case-insensitive username matching. They also focused on the system's core architecture by adding support for X-Forwarded-For and creating enhanced channel management features.
pythondefolddjangopypymux
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