James Richards
Owner at Pondermatic LLC
Lawton, Oklahoma, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Richards is a seasoned web, app, and back-end developer with over a decade of hands-on experience and 16+ years in software craft. As owner of Pondermatic LLC and former lead developer at Vistacast, he has designed and delivered learning products and production-grade systems while moving between startup-style projects and mature product lines. He emphasizes fast, efficient, and comprehensible code, with a particular eye for improving developer experience and documentation. His open-source contributions to the high-performance Phalcon PHP framework show attention to code quality and subtle bugfixes in model criteria behavior. Based in Lawton, Oklahoma, he blends entrepreneurial ownership with long-term product stewardship and practical engineering. Collected experience from datacasting-era projects through modern e-learning platforms gives him an unusual mix of media-aware systems and backend engineering.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Carlisle Senior HighAssociate's degree, Music and Video Business, Associate's degree, Music and Video Business at Art Institute of Dallas
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (12)
extjs10
phalcon10
php10
php-extension10
documentation10
application-framework9
app-framework9
web-framework9
refactoring6
timezone6
phpmyadmin6
apache6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
phalcon/cphalcon
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
High performance, full-stack PHP framework delivered as a C extension.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 3 PRs, 3 comments in 15 days
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to documentation and code improvements within the Phalcon framework's Model Criteria component. Their commits focused on correcting DocBlock parameter types, correcting implementation of `getLimit()`, and making other improvements to the codebase. This indicates a focus on maintaining code quality and improving the developer experience.
full-stackphpframeworkphalconphp-extension
pondermatic/lifterlms
Feb 2019 - Aug 2021
LifterLMS, a WordPress LMS Solution: Easily create, sell, and protect engaging online courses.
Contributions:2 PRs, 142 pushes, 86 branches in 2 years 6 months
protectonline-courseswordpressphplifterlms
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