Titus S
Distinguished Engineer, Platform
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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SeniorTitus S is a Distinguished Engineer with 16 years of hands-on experience designing and shipping scalable platform and content systems from Denver, Colorado. Currently leading platform architecture at Ibotta, he blends deep full-stack engineering (Node/TypeScript, GraphQL, ElasticSearch, Dynamo, Kubernetes) with frequent individual-contributor coding and squad-level technical leadership. His background spans real-time spatial systems and routing at MapQuest (Scala, Akka, Kafka) to front-end widget frameworks and reusable libraries, reflecting a rare comfort across languages and stacks. An active open-source contributor, he improved Showdown.js with export syntax fixes and a thorough test suite, showing attention to interoperability and quality. Known for reintroducing agile practices and driving pragmatic architecture, he focuses on making complex distributed systems maintainable and testable.
16 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
markdown10
javascript10
converter10
django10
testing10
markdown-it10
html10
ajax9
migration9
jquery9
github9
python9
django-admin9
django-templates6
django-models6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
showdownjs/showdown
Jun 2012 - Aug 2012
A bidirectional Markdown to HTML to Markdown converter written in Javascript
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:45 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Titus contributed to the Showdown.js repository by updating the code to match the examples in the README, specifically the export syntax. They added a comprehensive testing suite, including test cases and associated HTML files. Furthermore, the user addressed specific issues, such as the inclusion of `class=` attributes in Github codeblocks and handling parenthesis in URLs.
bidirectionalmarkdown-converterjavascriptmarkdown-parsergfm
tstone/trident-300
Dec 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:172 commits, 172 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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