Oscar Godson
Co-founder & CTO at Bickford+Godson
Camas, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOscar Godson is a seasoned technology leader and founder with 15 years of experience building consumer and fintech products, currently serving as Co-founder & CTO at MarkIII while partnering at Yorkshire Interactive/Bickford+Godson. He has led engineering from early-stage startups to acquisition—most notably taking Vault from Day 1 through acquisition and migrating its IRA product into Acorns Later—while also shipping key features like Round-Ups and Smart Deposits at Acorns. A hands-on full-stack engineer and creative director, he contributes to open source (authoring EpicEditor) and blends product design sensibility with scalable engineering practices. Based in Camas, WA, he’s comfortable moving between leadership, shipping code, and shaping product strategy for financial services.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Associates of Applied Science Graphic Design, Associates of Applied Science Graphic Design at Mt. Hood Community College
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309questions
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Github Skills (17)
markdown10
javascript10
markdown-it10
accessibility9
jquery9
css9
web-development9
html9
internet-explorer9
access-keys6
wysiwyg6
file-upload6
msword6
collision-detection6
ajax6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
OscarGodson/EpicEditor
Jan 2012 - Nov 2015
EpicEditor is an embeddable JavaScript Markdown editor with split fullscreen editing, live previewing, automatic draft saving, offline support, and more. For developers, it offers a robust API, can be easily themed, and allows you to swap out the bundled Markdown parser with anything you throw at it.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:283 commits, 3 PRs, 3 pushes in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Oscar contributed to various aspects of the `epiceditor` project. They implemented a fix for a specific issue and performed updates to the GitHub theme. Their work also involved making improvements to the documentation, including updates to API descriptions and quick start instructions. The user implemented the `rename` and `import` features.
swapthrowoffline-supportparsermarkdown
OscarGodson/jKey
Jan 2011 - Sep 2013
Key shortcuts made simple
Contributions:16 commits, 3 comments, 1 issue in 2 years 8 months
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