Joseph Lafountain
Lead Software Engineer at OptionSoft Technologies Inc.
City of Glens Falls, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoseph Lafountain is a Lead Software Engineer with eight years of hands-on experience building maintainable, user-focused applications and tooling from the desktop up. Based in Glens Falls, NY, he combines full-stack C# and XAML expertise with practical architecture improvements like dependency injection and interface refactoring to boost long-term code quality. At OptionSoft Technologies he leads engineering efforts while contributing to notable open-source work on the Cairo desktop project—adding themes, keyboard shortcuts, and UI refinements that enhance usability for Windows users. Known for a pragmatic, help-first approach to problem solving, he balances shipping features with improving developer experience and maintainability.
8 years of coding experience
Associate of Occupational Studies, Computer Programming/Programmer, General, Associate of Occupational Studies, Computer Programming/Programmer, General at ITT Technical Institute
Github Skills (9)
user-interface10
csharp10
xaml10
desktop-application10
enviroment10
dotnet-core10
desktop10
wpf9
develop9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
cairoshell/cairoshell
Feb 2018 - Sep 2022
Cairo is a customizable, intuitive desktop environment for Windows.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:120 reviews, 241 commits, 163 PRs in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Joseph primarily worked on the Cairo Desktop project, a customizable desktop environment for Windows. They implemented and modified XAML and C# code in the MenuBar and other files related to UI elements and functionality. Their contributions include adding a new theme, implementing keyboard shortcuts for enhanced usability, and refactoring to use interfaces and dependency injection, suggesting a focus on improving the user experience, maintainability, and overall architecture of the desktop environment.
windows-desktopwindowsdesktop-environmentlauncherintuitive
Epyk-Software/Flappers
Apr 2022 - May 2022
Contributions:19 commits, 1 push in 12 days
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