Wayne Holder
Software Engineer
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWayne Holder is a versatile software engineer with 11 years of professional experience and roots in the very earliest days of digital design, comfortable across the hardware/software divide from assembly to modern languages like Java and C++. He has architected large-scale DoD IT systems using Java and Oracle, contributed backend improvements to the open-source MARY TTS project (enhancing English text preprocessing and test coverage), and previously led his own company, FTL Games. A hands-on tinkerer and reverse engineer, he designs and fabricates microprocessor-based PCBs for amateur rocketry and autonomous RC vehicles, favoring projects that blend electronics and software. Based in San Diego, he brings a rare mix of historical perspective, practical engineering depth, and a habit of taking things apart to make them better.
11 years of coding experience
Math and Computer Science, Math and Computer Science at Grossmont College
Github Skills (6)
regular-expression10
javas10
text-to-speech10
speech-synthesis10
java10
unit-testing9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
marytts/marytts
Jun 2020 - Jun 2020
MARY TTS -- an open-source, multilingual text-to-speech synthesis system written in pure java
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 23 comments in 5 days
Contributions summary:Wayne primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the MARY TTS system, focusing on the English language module. Their work involved refining text preprocessing functionalities. The user made improvements to the code by introducing more efficient regular expression patterns. Additional efforts included the implementation of a new test module, and also several code simplifications within existing functionalities.
javatext-to-speechspeech-synthesistts
wholder/TeensyCNC2
Sep 2019 - Sep 2019
Simple CNC setup for hacking my Wife's Cricut Mini
Contributions:55 commits, 55 pushes in 5 days
cnc
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