Ray Fix is a seasoned software engineer with 15 years of experience building reliable systems from embedded to web, currently contributing at Discover Echo Inc. based in Huntington Beach. He blends deep technical chops from a long tenure at Cognex with leadership experience as former CTO of Pelfunc, demonstrating both hands-on engineering and product-focused decision making. Ray holds a master's in computer science from UIUC and a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from BYU, reflecting a strong academic foundation underpinning practical delivery. His open-source testing work on the well-known RestKit library shows a meticulous focus on quality—fixing date conversions, URL encoding, and CoreData test failures to harden client-side REST integrations. Colleagues rely on him for bug-driven diagnostics and test automation that reduce regressions and accelerate releases. He pairs pragmatic problem solving with a knack for improving legacy codebases and test suites.
15 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Brigham Young University
RestKit is a framework for consuming and modeling RESTful web resources on iOS and OS X
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Contributions:14 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Ray primarily focused on identifying and fixing test failures within the RestKit framework. Their commits address issues related to date conversions, URL encoding, and object deletion in the CoreData integration. They also added new tests and corrected existing ones, indicating a strong focus on improving the reliability and accuracy of the project's testing suite. These contributions suggest a role centered around ensuring the quality and stability of the RestKit library.
Contributions:4 PRs, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 7 months
iosuikitpanelsui-framework
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