Scott Furry
Developer at FurCaT
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Furry is a versatile developer with 12 years of software experience and a prior career as a Royal Canadian Navy electronics technician, now building custom systems through his firm FurCaT in Edmonton. He brings deep practical knowledge of legacy and modern architectures, strong cross-platform C/C++ skills, and hands-on experience improving build systems and GUIs for prominent open-source projects like DB Browser for SQLite, cppcheck, and wxWidgets. Scott’s contributions often focus on build reliability, modernization (C++11), and code-quality fixes—work that quietly keeps complex toolchains portable and maintainable. Comfortable across embedded and desktop domains, he blends disciplined troubleshooting from his military background with collaborative open-source development.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Paul Kane High SchoolCanadian Forces Naval Engineering School (Halifax, NS)
English
Github Skills (19)
debug10
c-language10
multiplatform10
qt10
build-system10
cmake10
cross-platform10
wxwidgets10
front-end-development10
windows-gui10
cprogramming-language10
platform-independent10
sqlite9
cplus9
cpp9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
sqlitebrowser/sqlitebrowser
Mar 2019 - Jun 2020
Official home of the DB Browser for SQLite (DB4S) project. Previously known as "SQLite Database Browser" and "Database Browser for SQLite". Website at:
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 19 commits, 37 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily focused on improving the build process and integrating external libraries. They enhanced the CMake build system to support external QCustomPlot and QHexEdit libraries, enabling more flexible builds. Additionally, they addressed code quality by resolving sign conversion warnings, fixing shadowed variable issues, and normalizing include paths. Furthermore, they updated the QCustomPlot version to the latest available and improved the Windows icon generation script.
browsersqlitebrowserdatabase-browsersqlc-plus-plus
danmar/cppcheck
May 2019 - Jul 2019
static analysis of C/C++ code
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 23 PRs, 65 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Scott significantly contributed to the `cppcheck` project by implementing and refining the user interface and build system. They added features for code editor styling with user preferences and keyboard shortcuts. The user also addressed build warnings, modernized code with C++11 features, and made adjustments to the CMake build process, demonstrating a strong understanding of build systems and GUI development.
cppcppcheckc-plus-plusstatic-code-analysiscross-platform
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