Jon Maddox
Co-Founder at Fancy Bits, LLC
Richmond, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJon Maddox is a seasoned software engineer and co-founder with 19 years of experience building user-centered apps and developer tools from Richmond, VA. He leads product and engineering at Fancy Bits, where he shipped the Channels iOS/tvOS apps, DVR server, and the internal systems that keep a small distributed company running smoothly. Previously a senior engineer at GitHub, he helped shape remote-first culture and built many internal developer and monitoring tools, bringing real-world expertise in CI, app distribution, and automation. An active open-source contributor, Jon has extended Homebridge/HomeKit, Home Assistant integrations, and emulator build tooling—often fixing edge-case bugs and improving asynchronous performance. He favors pragmatic simplicity: automating repetitive tasks, improving UX, and using open standards to make software that’s as fun to build as it is to use.
20 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Virginia Commonwealth University
Github Skills (40)
asynchronous10
dependency-management10
apim10
hubot10
javascript10
ios10
coffeescript10
redis10
rc10
apidoc10
async10
scripting10
home-assistant-integration10
hapi10
homekit10
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
maddox/magick-installer
Jan 2009 - Mar 2012
ImageMagick installer script because macports sucks
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & System Administrator
DevOps Engineer & System AdministratorContributions:32 commits in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Jon primarily focused on maintaining and updating the build script for installing ImageMagick and its dependencies. Their contributions involved updating URLs for various dependencies, fixing merge conflicts, and incorporating updates to the installation process. They also introduced changes related to dependencies such as iconv and updated build configurations, including a new ghostscript URL and updated ImageMagick configurations. These changes suggest a responsibility for the build and deployment aspects of the project.
imagemagickmacports
play/play
Feb 2012 - Oct 2013
play ► — your company's dj
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:363 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Jon primarily focused on back-end development tasks, including API enhancements and user authentication features. They implemented new API endpoints for streaming information and token retrieval. Key contributions involved user model creation, token generation for authentication, and the ability to find users by token. Additionally, they modified existing API endpoints to return appropriate content types and incorporate historical song data.
itunesnodejsapple-music
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