Rock Storm
Mechanical Engineer
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RockstarRock Storm is a Mechanical Engineer with 10 years of hands-on experience who bridges physical design and software development, contributing to both CAD and 3D-printing toolchains. By day he applies engineering rigor to mechanical problems; by night he's a developer and Debian maintainer, improving open-source projects like OpenSCAD (refactoring shape libraries and enhancing hexagon modules) and Printrun (GUI and multi-tool/flow-control support). His work shows a knack for simplifying and modernizing legacy code while preserving functionality, and for translating hardware needs into practical software improvements. Based in the United Arab Emirates, he combines cross-disciplinary fluency with a steady open-source presence that benefits maker and manufacturing communities.
10 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (11)
3d-models10
openscad10
front-end-development10
python10
wxpython10
library-design9
refactoring9
gcode9
3d-printing9
command-line-interface8
pcie6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
kliment/Printrun
Mar 2016 - Dec 2022
Pronterface, Pronsole, and Printcore - Pure Python 3d printing host software
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 35 reviews, 61 commits in 6 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Rock primarily focused on enhancing the Printrun software by adding and fixing help messages across the main scripts (printcore.py, pronterface.py, plater.py, and pronsole.py). They also contributed to merging updates from the upstream master branch, incorporating features related to multi-tool support and print flow control. The changes involve modifications to the GUI, specifically adding flow control functionality and improving the layout of the new-macro dialog.
pythonprintinghost3d-printingpython-3d
openscad/MCAD
Sep 2018 - Feb 2021
OpenSCAD Parametric CAD Library (LGPL 2.1)
Role in this project:Software Engineer
Software EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 14 commits, 8 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Rock primarily contributed to the `shapes` and `regular_shapes` libraries within the OpenSCAD project. Their work involved deprecating the `shapes` library in favor of the `regular_shapes` library. This included adding deprecation warnings, renaming functions, and simplifying modules related to generating geometric shapes. The user extended the functionality of the hexagon module and refactored its structure to improve maintainability.
polygons3d-modelsfltkcadparametric
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