Kevin Cox
Founding Developer at Plato
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Cox is a founding developer with 14 years of experience building reliable, high-performance distributed systems and site reliability engineering at scale. After six years as an SRE at Google, he now brings that operational rigor to early-stage product engineering at Plato, combining deep backend skills with a pragmatic founder’s mindset. An active open-source contributor, he has improved robustness in widely used Lua utilities and enhanced developer tooling like vim-signify and VimFx, showing attention to correctness and cross-platform compatibility. Based in Old Toronto, he pairs a software engineering degree from Carleton with a penchant for defensive coding and pragmatic refactors that prevent subtle runtime failures.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Martingrove CIBachelor of Engineering (BEng) Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Software Engineering at Carleton University
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Github Skills (32)
assertion10
apim10
git10
javascript10
coffeescript10
firefox-webextension10
browser-extension10
firefox-addon10
vim-plugin10
vim10
lua10
api10
assert10
webextension10
web-application9
Programming languages (38)
Github contributions (5)
akhodakivskiy/VimFx
Jan 2018 - Sep 2018
Vim keyboard shortcuts for Firefox
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 6 PRs, 23 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily focused on maintaining and updating the `vimfx` Firefox extension. Their work involved adapting the extension for compatibility with newer Firefox versions, addressing breaking changes in Firefox's internal APIs and components. This included modifying code that utilizes deprecated interfaces, replacing XUL elements, and updating dependencies to ensure continued functionality. The user also addressed bugs related to core features like find functionality.
firefoxvimkeyboard-shortcutsfirefox-extensionkeyboard
mhinz/vim-signify
Sep 2019 - Oct 2019
:heavy_plus_sign: Show a diff using Vim its sign column.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 6 PRs, 11 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Kevin focused on enhancing the functionality of the Vim plugin, vim-signify. They implemented new commands, such as `:SignifyRevert`, to interact with the diffs within the plugin. They refactored code by extracting logic into separate functions and added features to support diffing against the buffer content. This involved modifications across multiple files within the plugin's architecture, enhancing its usability and integration with different version control systems.
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