Toufic Makhoul is a software engineer with 7 years of recent hands-on experience and a long history of product and project leadership at major engineering firms including Bechtel, Shell, and InEight. He combines full-stack development (C#, .NET, Visual Studio) and relational database tuning with product ownership skills—bridging stakeholders, prioritizing backlogs, and running UAT and release dry-runs. At Shell he built support tooling and training packages used across the business, and at InEight he advanced enterprise software as a senior engineer. An active contributor to open-source parsing tools, he improved content extraction, responsive image handling, and robustness in the well-known postlight/parser repository. Based in Houston, he brings a pragmatic blend of systems-level thinking and hands-on coding that reduces risk and accelerates delivery.
7 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Louisiana Tech University
📜 Extract meaningful content from the chaos of a web page
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:17 commits, 56 PRs, 59 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Toufic primarily contributed to improving the parsing functionality of the `postlight/parser` repository, focusing on enhancing the handling of responsive images and relative URLs. They addressed various issues related to image loading, srcset attributes, and URL resolution, ensuring correct behavior in different scenarios. Additionally, the user incorporated new extractors, specifically for Reddit and Deadspin, extending the parser's capabilities to support content extraction from new platforms. They also worked on handling errors more effectively, improving the robustness of the parsing process.
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