Jeff Horton
Computer Technician at My Temporary Side Business
Midlothian, Texas, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolJeff Horton is a hands-on computer technician with 11 years of experience repairing and building desktops, laptops, servers, and AV racks, and a background in computer networking and security from TSTC. Based in Midlothian, Texas, he blends practical skills—Windows installations, Cisco firewall/switch/router configuration, virtualization (VMware/Hyper-V/VirtualBox), and virus removal—with electrical know-how like soldering and cable management. He contributes to open-source PHP tooling, having improved the Prophecy mocking framework through refactoring and stability fixes, reflecting a detail-oriented approach to backend code. Outside of tech he’s an avid web developer, LARPer, and board gamer who enjoys long research dives and mountain time, bringing curiosity and persistence to troubleshooting and projects.
11 years of coding experience
Associate's degree, Computer Networking Systems and Administration / Computer Network Security, Associate's degree, Computer Networking Systems and Administration / Computer Network Security at TstcHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Midlothian High School
Stackoverflow
924reputation
177kreached
12answers
1question
Github Skills (17)
unit-testing10
mockk10
php10
mocks10
mocker10
mocking10
exception-handling9
ecmascript9
refactoring8
iterator6
sorting6
dependency-injection6
design-patterns6
traits6
phpunit6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
phpspec/prophecy
Aug 2015 - Aug 2015
Highly opinionated mocking framework for PHP 5.3+
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 22 days
Contributions summary:Jeff primarily focused on modifying the code related to the `Prophecy` mocking framework. Their contributions involved refactoring code, fixing syntax issues, and implementing new features, such as marking final methods as unextendable and adding exceptions for certain scenarios. They also worked on testing and ensuring the framework's stability. These changes resulted in improvements of the codebase and its functionality for mocking purposes.
mockingphp
kamioftea/frostgrave
Aug 2016 - May 2025
Frostgrave Roster Management Site
Contributions:60 PRs, 85 pushes, 40 branches in 8 years 10 months
site-managementfrostgraveroster
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.