John Fahey
Developer at Empower
Kingston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Fahey is a seasoned developer with over two decades of experience in the financial services industry, blending hands-on coding with business analysis and project leadership. He has a strong track record modernizing legacy systems, building automated reporting and workflow solutions that reduce costs and operational risk. As a technical lead he has managed offshore teams, steered platform decisions, and authored detailed business/technical blueprints to ensure consistent delivery across SDLC phases. His toolkit spans legacy mainframe languages like COBOL and JCL to modern stacks including VB.Net, SQL Server, Informatica and front-end JavaScript, and he has practical experience migrating intranets and web servers into enterprise infrastructure. An active contributor to open-source UX improvements, he enhanced the widely used pivottable JavaScript UI by refactoring styles and improving filter usability—showing a pragmatic focus on maintainability and user experience. Based in Kingston, MA, he combines deep domain knowledge with a collaborative, documentation-driven approach that helps bridge technical and business teams.
12 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
Northeastern University
Github Skills (3)
css10
javascript10
html9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
nicolaskruchten/pivottable
Mar 2014 - Mar 2014
Open-source Javascript Pivot Table (aka Pivot Grid, Pivot Chart, Cross-Tab) implementation with drag'n'drop.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:John primarily focused on enhancing the user interface of the pivot table implementation. Their contributions involved adding a search filter to the filter box, moving CSS styles from JavaScript files to CSS files for better organization, and modifying the filter box header and layout. The user also refactored the code by adding and removing classes and adjusting margins within the UI elements to improve visual presentation and maintainability. This included refactoring around the filter box and its child elements.
crosstabjavascriptpivot-chartpivot-gridpivot-tables
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