Juan Dent is a software engineer and educator based in Costa Rica with over a decade of professional experience and a strong academic foundation—double B.S. Summa Cum Laude in Physics and Mathematics and an M.S. in Computer Science Magna Cum Laude. He built practical developer tooling at Exactus by reverse-engineering COM components into a managed .NET abstraction and authored a Microsoft Resource Kit book on .NET and C#. Currently he runs Dent Hulse, preparing advanced Modern C++ courses with Cenfotec and pursuing research in C++ ORM design. An active contributor to sqlite_orm, he has improved schema synchronization and database introspection to prevent data loss, reflecting a pragmatic focus on robustness and maintainability. Beyond code, he blends technical depth with visual creativity through professional photography.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Computer Software Engineering, Magna Cum Laude, Master's Degree, Computer Software Engineering, Magna Cum Laude at Instituto Tecnologico Costa Rica
Bachelor's Degree, Double major: Mathematics and Physics, Summa Cum Laude, Bachelor's Degree, Double major: Mathematics and Physics, Summa Cum Laude at University of North Carolina at Greensboro
❤️ SQLite ORM light header only library for modern C++
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Contributions:140 reviews, 31 commits, 17 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Juan's contributions focused on enhancing the SQLite ORM library. Their work included adding functionality to retrieve table information through the `table_xinfo` and `table_info` pragmas, enabling more in-depth database introspection. They also refactored the schema synchronization logic to prevent data loss during schema updates. Furthermore, the user addressed code formatting and removed unused elements, indicating an effort to improve code quality and maintainability.
Contributions:2 PRs, 30 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 8 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.