Josh Harmon
Vancouver, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Harmon is a pragmatic C++ developer with 13 years of experience building Windows desktop and embedded Linux/RTOS software, combining low-level systems work with performance-conscious user-facing tools. He has shipped motion-control tooling and an iOS app at Delta Computer Systems, contributed back-end fixes and security updates to the well-known MyBB open-source forum project, and has hands-on experience profiling and optimizing performance-sensitive code. Based in Vancouver, Washington, Josh pairs a formal CS background from Washington State University Vancouver with practical field experience—from debugging large C++ codebases to improving installer and 2FA behaviors in open source. Colleagues rely on him for careful database and platform interoperability fixes and for turning complex embedded requirements into reliable, testable features.
13 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Washington State University VancouverSkyview High School
Github Skills (6)
database-management10
php10
mysql10
forum10
regex9
sql9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
mybb/mybb
Mar 2013 - Dec 2017
MyBB is a free and open source forum software.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 commits, 9 PRs, 3 pushes in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Josh primarily contributed to improving the forum software's back-end functionality. Their commits focused on refining database interactions, specifically addressing the transition from MySQLi to MySQL and correcting database table references. They also updated links and text within the installation process. Additionally, the user fixed issues in subject handling and made essential security updates, particularly related to HTTPS URLs and the 2FA implementation.
cmsmysqlforumphpsqlite
JoshHarmon/mybb-better-password-practices
Jun 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:7 commits, 5 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 month
cryptographicmybbplugin
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