Michael Fox
Floor Technician at FTW Entertainment
Arbutus, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Fox is a hands-on developer and IT technician with 12 years of experience bridging practical systems work and web development. Currently balancing floor technician duties with web/backend contributions at FTW Entertainment, he has worked on real-world projects from a chamber of commerce site to backend PHP and Chrome/Firefox extension development that improved EPUB generation and image handling. Skilled in C++, PHP, JavaScript, Python, HTML/CSS and familiar with NodeJS and NGINX, he pairs troubleshooting experience (re-imaging, networking, device support) with code contributions that fixed stability issues and enhanced parsers. Pursuing further training in web and game development, he brings a pragmatic mindset and a history of iterative problem-solving—evident in GitHub commits that tuned string handling to stop crashes and extended parser support for archived content. Based in Arbutus, MD, he is actively building his applied programming credentials while seeking a company that will grow his full-stack and game-dev skills.
12 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Information Systems CyberSecurity, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Information Systems CyberSecurity at ITT Technical Institute-Owings MillsBachelors of Applied Science Major, Programming & Minor in Web Development, Bachelors of Applied Science Major, Programming & Minor in Web Development at Strayer University
Japanese, English
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Github Skills (24)
debug10
javascript10
parser10
strings10
browser-extension10
text-manipulation10
chrome-extension10
chrome-app10
webscraping10
parsing10
parse10
dotnet-core10
html10
csharp10
chrome-plugin10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
dteviot/WebToEpub
Jun 2016 - Dec 2016
A simple Chrome (and Firefox) Extension that converts Web Novels (and other web pages) into an EPUB.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:27 commits, 7 PRs, 4 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the development of a Chrome and Firefox extension for converting web pages into EPUB format. Their work involved enhancing the BakaTsuki parser to handle image collection and formatting, specifically addressing image retrieval and display within the EPUB structure. The user also refactored and improved the code by including various fixes and new features, such as support for the Wayback Machine beta. These changes improved the output of the EPUB format.
firefoxwebextensionnovelschromefirefox-extension
dlrudie/Snip
Dec 2015 - Dec 2015
Snip will get the artist, track, and album information from Spotify and iTunes, and save the information to a text file.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 19 comments in 4 days
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on fixing a crashing issue within the application. Their work involved modifying a text handling function to truncate strings to a specific length to prevent crashes related to displaying notification text. They iteratively adjusted the `maxLength` value in the code, making several commits to fine-tune the truncation length and ensure the application's stability and resolved issue #67.
artisttext-filespotifyitunesspotify-api
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