Jim Showalter
Chief at iTek
Akron, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJim Showalter is a seasoned IT specialist and owner of iTek in Akron, Ohio, with over a decade of hands-on experience providing computer repair, user security, and data backup/retrieval services. His technical journey began at Colorado State Pueblo and continued as a radioman in the U.S. Navy, where he developed a practical foundation in communications systems. Early adopter of personal computers in the 1980s, Jim has a long track record of hardware modification and programming that informs his pragmatic, hardware-aware approach to troubleshooting. He focuses on protecting user data and ensuring dependable recovery paths, blending legacy systems knowledge with modern security best practices. Clients rely on his mix of military discipline, decades-long curiosity, and persistent learning to solve thorny, real-world problems that others often overlook.
10 years of coding experience
Computer & Data Processing, Computer & Data Processing at Colorado State University Pueblo
Stackoverflow
550reputation
97kreached
14answers
25questions
Github Skills (200)
testing10
swagger10
http-client10
code-generation10
gradle-plugin10
openapi10
api10
groovy10
openvas10
box-sdk10
api-server10
mockito10
unit-testing10
javadoc10
api-client10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
jimshowalter/architecture-enforcer
Feb 2019 - Mar 2022
Architecture analyzer/enforcer for Java codebases.
Contributions:198 commits, 2 PRs, 166 pushes in 3 years 1 month
decompositionenforcerdomain-modeldomain-driven-developmentrefactoring
jimshowalter/vocabutron
Oct 2018 - Nov 2018
Vocabulary program
Contributions:7 PRs, 111 pushes, 11 branches in 1 month
vocabularyphoneticssimilarity
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