David Cox
Senior Software Engineer at Inktavo
Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Cox is a senior software engineer with over 12 years of experience shaping scalable web and backend systems, currently driving product improvements at Inktavo in Pennsylvania. He led a team at Automox to deliver a core reporting feature for a SaaS product and advocated for an event-driven, microservices approach, working with Elasticsearch, AWS Aurora, Docker/Kubernetes, Spring Boot, Kafka, Protobuf, PHP/Laravel, and more. His project footprint spans leadership roles at Dunn Tire and other firms, with hands-on work ranging from CI/CD, monitoring, and DevOps to modernizing legacy systems and complex API integrations. In open source, he contributed to CodeIgniter as a back-end developer, enhanced the Profiler with $_FILES and data presentation, and improved security, and he contributed to Laravel Nova field container enhancements. He holds a BS in Computer Information Systems from SUNY College at Buffalo, and his career blends client-focused delivery with a strong foundation in software architecture and practical, secure code.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Information Systems, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Information Systems at State University of New York College at BuffaloRegents Degree, Regents Degree at Hamburg High School
Github Skills (42)
laravel510
laravel610
laravel1010
laravel10
codeigniter410
laravelnova10
laravel910
php-frameworks10
regular-expression10
php-framework10
php10
laravel810
regular-expressions10
laravelmix10
ova10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
epartment/nova-dependency-container
Oct 2019 - Jul 2021
A Laravel Nova field container allowing to depend on other fields values
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 3 reviews, 21 commits in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:David primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of a Laravel Nova field container. Their contributions involved ensuring that child fields resolved correctly within the container. They added "dependsOnNot" functionality, refactored code for clarity, and addressed issues related to action requests. These changes focused on improving the dependency management and overall usability of the Nova field.
laravel-novanovafieldfieldslaravel
lonnieezell/Bonfire
Aug 2013 - Oct 2013
Jumpstart your CodeIgniter web applications with a modular, HMVC-ready, backend.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the template and theming aspects of the CodeIgniter-based web application, updating the templating system with new features like `content()`. They also updated the base CI framework to version 2.1.4, fixing bugs, and incorporating security enhancements. They also updated bootstrap to 2.3.2 and fixed css issues, updating the appearance of the admin section.
codeigniterweb-applicationshmvcjumpstartweb-app
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