J Deckard
Designer at Deckard Design, LLC
Bloomington, Indiana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJ Deckard is a versatile IT generalist and designer with over a decade of experience building web and mobile systems, managing IT operations, and guiding product development from concept to deployment. He has led architecture, security, and cross-functional teams in startups and enterprises—most recently running his own firm, Deckard Design—while also serving as AVP & Director of IT at a regional bank where regulatory compliance and information security were core responsibilities. Skilled in backend development, database design, virtual infrastructure, and project management, he pairs hands-on coding (including orbital logistics and resource-handling improvements in an open-source space-sim project) with strategic oversight of outsourced and in-house teams. Known for pragmatic problem solving, he stabilizes legacy systems and turns operational needs into maintainable software solutions. Based in Bloomington, Indiana, he blends entrepreneurial drive with institutional IT discipline and a self-described ambition for "world domination" that speaks to his bold, long-term thinking.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Indiana University-Purdue University at IndianapolisComputer Science, Computer Science at Indiana University BloomingtonLeadership Bloomington-Monroe County, Leadership Bloomington-Monroe County at Indiana University Continuing Studies
English, French
Github Skills (5)
object-oriented-programming10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
algorithm9
algorithms9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
UmbraSpaceIndustries/MKS
Nov 2017 - May 2022
MKS/OKS Colonization Systems
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 3 reviews, 65 commits in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:J primarily contributed to the "Orbital Logistics" feature, refactoring the UI and making algorithm improvements. Their work included significant code changes within the `OrbitalLogisticsTransferRequest.cs` file, modifying how resources are transferred between vessels. Furthermore, the user addressed bugs, changed fuel consumption to transport credits, and improved the efficiency of resource handling. Finally, the user is also responsible for implementing code that limited the vessels that could participate in orbital logistics.
zonescolonizationplanet
tjdeckard/Karbonite
Feb 2019 - Mar 2022
Karbonite - Mineable. Burnable. Community-Driven.
Contributions:1 release, 8 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 1 month
community-drivenburnabledocker
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