Jose Chavez is a PHP Web Developer with 12 years of hands-on experience building user-first web applications, accessibility-focused UIs, and REST APIs. A UCSC Computer Science graduate, he has led full-stack teams and taught accessible, semantic development practices while delivering production sites and e-commerce solutions using WordPress/WooCommerce and React. His work spans front-end UX and back-end session and database tuning—evidenced by contributions to the widely used QuickFIX/J project where he improved JDBC connection management. At Rayzist he modernized sites for security and SEO, and at Guidewire he helped cut cloud costs through automation and tooling. Comfortable mentoring and collaborating across academia and industry, he’s driven by design-minded problem solving and a continual appetite to learn.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Computer Engineering, Bachelor Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University
QuickFIX/J is a full featured messaging engine for the FIX protocol. - This is the official project repository.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 4 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Jose primarily focused on enhancing the QuickFIX/J messaging engine by configuring and integrating Proxool connection settings. They added new properties like `JdbcMaxActiveConnection`, `JdbcMaxActiveTime`, `JdbcMaxConnectionLifeTime`, and `JdbcSimultaneousBuildThrottle` to improve database connection management. These changes involved modifications to `JdbcUtil.java`, `JdbcSetting.java`, and `SessionSettings.java`, indicating a focus on database interactions and session management within the FIX protocol implementation. Additionally, the user performed routine tasks like merging branches and updating the project from its upstream repository.
Contributions:6 PRs, 13 pushes, 8 branches in 3 years 2 months
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