Josh Throckmorton
Chief Technology Officer & Software Engineer at DevXT
Grove City, Ohio, United States
Summary
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RockstarJosh Throckmorton is a seasoned technology leader and hands-on CTO with a 25+ year curiosity-driven career focused on AI, automation, and robotics. He builds production-ready software and infrastructure across languages (C#, Python, PowerShell, PHP, JavaScript), leads small engineering teams, and runs DevOps, security audits, and cloud/server operations end-to-end. As founder of AGiXT, he contributes notable open-source AI automation tooling and has practical experience extending community projects like microsoft/markitdown with robust back-end features. His recent work spans humanoid and quadruped robotics rentals and demos at XTRobotics, alongside long-term contract development at DevXT and complex systems engineering for enterprises. Based in Grove City, Ohio, he pairs a lifelong drive to explore frontier tech—quantum computing, AI in biotech/medicine—with pragmatic delivery of scalable, auditable systems.
4 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (9)
markdown10
pkzip10
markdown-it10
unzip10
python10
zip10
testing9
autogen8
pdf7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/markitdown
Dec 2024 - Dec 2024
Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 1 PR, 3 comments in 4 days
Contributions summary:Josh focused on enhancing the `markitdown` tool's capabilities, primarily by implementing zip file handling and related functionality. They added a `ZipConverter` class to extract and process files within ZIP archives, leveraging existing converters to handle various file types. This involved modifications to the core Python code, integration of the `zipfile` library, and writing tests to validate the new functionality. Additionally, the user improved the class documentation.
autogenautogen-extensionlangchainmarkdownmicrosoft-office
AGiXT/streamlit
Jul 2023 - Feb 2025
Contributions:90 releases, 33 PRs, 172 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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