John Comeau
Director Of IT at fathead design, inc.
Greater Chicago Area United States
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Top SchoolJohn Comeau is a seasoned IT leader with over a decade of experience directing technology strategy and operations across nonprofits and commercial firms in the Chicago area. Currently Director of IT at A Safe Haven Foundation and VP of IT previously, he combines hands-on infrastructure and help-desk management with strategic P&L and hosting experience from running a hosting division and managing multi-server environments. His background spans Windows and macOS environments, WAN/LAN, VOIP, and disaster recovery, and he has led IT transformations for education, retail, and foodservice organizations. An active contributor to open-source, he has improved cross-version compatibility in the widely used django-crispy-forms library, reflecting a practical engineering mindset alongside executive responsibility. He blends a communications and theater arts BA with formal computer science studies, giving him a rare mix of technical depth and stakeholder-facing communication skills.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, 4.0, Computer Science, 4.0 at DeVryBA, Communications and Theater Arts; Computer Science Courses, 3.0, BA, Communications and Theater Arts; Computer Science Courses, 3.0 at University of Iowa
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Github Skills (42)
debug10
python10
django10
testing10
substring10
java10
sql-server10
width10
html10
css-float10
mysql9
ffmpeg9
utf9
image9
bitwise-operators9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
django-crispy-forms/django-crispy-forms
Mar 2015 - Apr 2015
The best way to have DRY Django forms. The app provides a tag and filter that lets you quickly render forms in a div format while providing an enormous amount of capability to configure and control the rendered HTML.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:32 commits, 1 PR, 5 comments in 19 days
Contributions summary:John primarily focused on bug fixes and improvements related to version comparisons within the Django-Crispy-Forms library. They addressed issues in the `version_tuple` function, which is crucial for compatibility across different Django versions. The user also added debugging messages to pinpoint version comparison errors in test cases and modified tests to ensure correct behavior across different Django versions. These changes improved the library's stability and compatibility.
renderpythondjangocapabilityconfigure
jcomeauictx/jcscrypt
Mar 2021 - Mar 2025
scrypt hash optimized for mining litecoin and forks thereof
Contributions:2 PRs, 188 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 1 month
cryptographymininghashforkscrypto
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