Frank Becker
Owner at MooFlu.com
Port Moody, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolFrank Becker is a versatile software engineer and owner with 15+ years of hands-on experience spanning embedded Linux kernel and driver development, cross-platform desktop and mobile apps, and full-stack web systems. He has shipped production features at companies like Kodak/Creo and Thoughtexchange and runs his own shop, MooFlu.com, since 2001, blending product-facing UI work with low-level systems engineering. Frank has deep C/C++ and C# experience, plus web stacks (ASP.NET, PHP, JavaScript) and databases (Oracle, MySQL), and has authored utilities and integrations that improved developer workflows. An active open-source contributor, he improved UI accessibility and keyboard navigation in the libRocket UI library and enhanced Windows QuickLook support for complex image formats using ImageMagick. Based in Port Moody, BC, he pairs a generalist problem-solver mindset with a track record of pragmatic, cross-platform solutions that surface subtle usability gains in mature codebases.
15 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Victoria
Github Skills (16)
html10
css10
uid10
wpf10
imagemagick10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
netframework10
rtf9
file-handling9
accessibility9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
QL-Win/QuickLook
Feb 2021 - Dec 2022
Bring macOS “Quick Look” feature to Windows
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 7 commits, 10 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Frank contributed extensively to the QuickLook project, primarily focusing on enhancing image and text viewer plugins within the Windows Quick Look implementation. They implemented support for new file types, like RTF, and updated image handling using ImageMagick, including optimizations for multi-layer GIMP XCF files. Significant changes included refactoring image and video viewers to improve performance and update dependencies, especially Magick.NET. Furthermore, they also modified the text viewer's theming to align with OS dark mode settings.
macoslookwindowsquicklook
libRocket/libRocket
Mar 2011 - Aug 2011
libRocket - The HTML/CSS User Interface library
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Frank implemented and improved UI elements within the libRocket library. Their commits focused on enhancing the functionality of dropdowns and sliders by propagating disabled and focus states to child elements and enabling keyboard navigation. They also addressed case sensitivity in element IDs and added a special token for element lookups, contributing to overall UI library's usability and features. These changes improve the user interaction and accessibility of UI components.
user-interfacecssjavascripthtml-csslibrocket
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