Michael Mulligan
Photographer's Assistant at Miss Maine Scholarship Pageant Inc
Brunswick, Maine, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Mulligan is a multidisciplinary technologist and photographer with 16 years of experience blending web development, UI design, and professional photography. Rooted in early hands-on coding (Perl, PHP, C++) and a long-running interest in standards-compliant web technologies, he builds practical CMS-driven sites, optimizes front-end UX, and manages MySQL-backed deployments. As owner of CoverThis Photography and photographer's assistant at The Tiffany Studio, he pairs technical skill with commercial photography—covering events from local pageants to Miss America—and offers advanced retouching and video production. His open-source contributions span front-end integration for hardware UIs (OctoScreen for OctoPrint) and back-end improvements to phpDocumentor, showing comfort across the stack. Based in Brunswick, Maine, he combines creative problem-solving with a pragmatic, client-focused approach and a decades-long habit of learning new tools and techniques.
16 years of coding experience
Transfered Out, Broadcast Media, Transfered Out, Broadcast Media at Susquehanna UniversityWeb and New Media, Web and New Media at The New England School of Communications
Github Skills (16)
uid10
php10
gtk10
go10
docblocks10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
documentation10
refactoring8
logging8
error-handling8
refactor8
watchers7
timer7
watchdog7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Z-Bolt/OctoScreen
Mar 2021 - Mar 2021
LCD touch interface for our OctoPrint
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:17 reviews, 17 commits, 24 PRs in 19 days
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on the user interface and its integration with the OctoPrint backend. Their work includes implementing UI elements, especially related to file management and SD card interaction. They also made changes to improve the application's reliability, including adding logging and addressing potential watchdog issues by increasing the watchdog timer.
lcdoctoprinttouchtouch-interface
phpDocumentor/phpDocumentor
Apr 2014 - Apr 2014
Documentation Generator for PHP
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 3 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the back-end aspects of the phpDocumentor project. Their work focused on enhancing the example tag functionality, including adding support for inline examples and modifying the example assembler to retrieve the example content. They also made fixes related to the code and refactored the project. The user's contributions improved the documentation generation process.
pdfdocblockdocumentation-generatordocblocksphp
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