Theodore Brown
Senior Software Engineer at TrustFunds
Ortonville, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolTheodore Brown is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience modernizing legacy systems and squeezing out performance across the stack. Based in Ortonville, MN, he has driven large migrations to modern front-end frameworks (Svelte, Angular/TypeScript) and built Slim-based APIs, automated testing, static analysis, and zero-downtime deployments to improve reliability and developer velocity. At TrustFunds he cut average request times by more than half in year one and continued multi-year improvements that tripled throughput while lowering infrastructure cost. An active open-source contributor, he’s fixed core runtime bugs in Svelte and optimized PHP tooling like Slim and Psalm, contributing practical improvements to widely used projects. He enjoys identifying and eliminating bottlenecks and automating drudgery, and even rewrote a popular JS project website in TypeScript to modernize its UX and install docs. Fluent in Spanish from a stint teaching abroad, he brings both technical depth and clear communication to cross-functional teams.
13 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Associate of Applied Science (AAS), Information Systems Management - Web Programming, 3.55 GPA, Associate of Applied Science (AAS), Information Systems Management - Web Programming, 3.55 GPA at Rasmussen College
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Github Skills (44)
url-routing10
javascript10
type-inference10
static-analysis10
website-development10
css10
typescript10
user-interface10
psr-710
micro-framework10
type-system10
php10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
html10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
fgnass/spin.js
May 2013 - Jul 2021
A spinning activity indicator
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:29 releases, 50 commits, 21 PRs in 8 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Theodore primarily focused on improving the user interface and website aspects of the "spin.js" library. They rewrote the project's website in TypeScript, updated its styling, and added new features like a custom animation and the option to customize the color fade. They also addressed compatibility issues with Internet Explorer and added a link to the UMD module, clarifying installation instructions.
activity-indicator
hakimel/Ladda
Jun 2017 - Dec 2021
Buttons with built-in loading indicators.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 51 commits, 11 PRs in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Theodore primarily focused on maintaining and updating the front-end code of the Ladda project, a library for button loading indicators. Their contributions included updating dependencies, fixing a bug related to the focus outline on buttons, and improving the codebase through whitespace adjustments. The user also addressed build-related issues.
loading-barspinnerbuttonsindicatorsbuilt-in
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