Tom Akita
Software Engineer at Indeed.com
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Akita is a San Francisco–based software engineer with 11 years of experience building production systems for enterprises and small businesses. He has driven feature development and platform work at Indeed and Charles Schwab, contributing to large-scale institutional and consumer-facing products. As an open-source maintainer of Colorful.Console, he implemented cross-platform styling, gradient generation, and FIGlet font parsing for .NET console output, demonstrating a knack for polishing developer-facing tooling. Comfortable across full-stack concerns, Tom blends pragmatic engineering with a focus on developer experience and has a track record of migrating and modernizing projects for greater compatibility and maintainability.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Wesleyan University
Github Skills (11)
net10
asp-net10
console-application10
dotnet10
csharp10
color-management10
console10
dotnet-core10
platform-independent9
multiplatform9
cross-platform9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
tomakita/Colorful.Console
Nov 2015 - May 2021
Style your .NET console output!
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 58 commits, 13 PRs in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Tom's contributions primarily revolved around enhancing the .NET console output library. They initially implemented core styling functionality and added project configuration files. Further development involved migrating the project to DNX, followed by implementing advanced features like gradient generation and color replacement. The user also added cross-platform compatibility enhancements and FIGlet font parsing.
dotnetconsole
tomakita/RetroCheck
May 2020 - May 2020
Contributions:2 releases, 23 commits, 6 pushes in 2 days
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