Troy Spencer
API Technical Writer at Branch
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTroy Spencer is an API technical writer and seasoned software engineer with a decade of experience building simple, reliable systems and developer-facing documentation. Based in Portland, he blends backend engineering chops—shipped at Branch and KEB America—with leadership as Lead Programmer at CrushPoint Games, where he also develops game systems like Unification. He focuses on clarity across code, UI, and docs so users find answers before they ask, and has practical open-source impact contributing parser robustness to the well-regarded araddon/dateparse Go library. Troy holds a BS in Computer Engineering/Computer Science from UW–Madison and moves fluidly between hands-on coding and crisp technical communication. Colleagues rely on him to reduce complexity: he not only adds features but refactors core logic and tests to keep systems maintainable.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Engineering/Computer Science, 3.379, BS, Computer Engineering/Computer Science, 3.379 at University of Wisconsin-Madison
English
Github Skills (15)
date-parsing10
go10
algorithms9
get-time9
testing9
data-structure9
datetimes9
golang9
dates9
timespan9
algorithm9
data-structures9
timeago9
datetime9
timed9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
araddon/dateparse
Aug 2019 - Jun 2020
GoLang Parse many date strings without knowing format in advance.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 15 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Troy focused on enhancing the `dateparse` library by introducing new features and improving existing functionalities. They implemented options for parsing, including `PreferMonthFirst` and `RetryAmbiguousDateWithSwap` to handle ambiguous date formats, which involved significant modifications to the core parsing logic. The user also refactored code by renaming the `Option` type to `ParserOption` and added tests to ensure code coverage and reliability. Their contributions centered on improving the robustness and flexibility of the date parsing capabilities within the GoLang library.
datetimegolangstringsdatesparser
troyspencer/launch
Jun 2019 - Jul 2019
Contributions:40 commits, 22 PRs, 31 pushes in 29 days
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