Jimmy Thrasher
Board Member at SuperCat Solutions
Durham, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolJimmy Thrasher is a seasoned software developer and technology leader with 17 years of experience turning ideas into prototypes and shipping 1.0 products across web and mobile platforms. Based in Durham, NC, he has led technology for wholesale home-accessory software at SuperCat Solutions and consulted for startups through Brown Bird Labs, focusing on rapid prototyping, product refinement, and pragmatic engineering decisions. His background includes research-driven prototyping at Lenovo’s Advanced Technology Center and core engineering work on IBM’s WebSphere platform, giving him a strong blend of product vision and low-level systems experience. A hands-on full-stack contributor, he has extended the Kakoune code editor with cross-platform fixes and new language syntax support, reflecting an attention to developer experience and tooling. He’s also active in nonprofit education governance, helping found and steward Bradford Academy, which speaks to his long-term community commitment beyond product delivery. Colleagues rely on him for rapid iteration, clear tradeoff analysis, and shipping usable software from concept to launch.
17 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
North Carolina School of Science and MathematicsBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at North Carolina State University
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Github Skills (27)
editors10
objective-c10
c-language10
text-editor10
editor10
modal-dialog10
kakoune10
code-editor10
modal-windows10
cprogramming-language10
ruby9
cplus9
swift9
cpp9
console-application8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
mawww/kakoune
Apr 2014 - Nov 2018
mawww's experiment for a better code editor
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer (with a focus on text editor functionality)
Full-stack Developer (with a focus on text editor functionality)Contributions:23 commits, 12 PRs, 7 comments in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Jimmy contributed to the Kakoune code editor by addressing a variety of issues and adding new features. They implemented fixes for platform-specific issues, such as using plain libncurses on Apple systems and defining external variables for OSX. The user also added new commands like "nextbuffer" and implemented Objective-C syntax highlighting. Furthermore, they added support for Swift and Ruby syntax highlighting with specific adaptations, indicating a focus on expanding the editor's language support.
vimkakounec-plus-plusmodal-editingconsole-application
jjthrash/roam-tools
Aug 2020 - Apr 2022
My *personal* Roam Research tools. Not supported.
Contributions:4 releases, 23 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 8 months
roam-researchnot-supportedsupportedroam
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