Ethan Willis
Mobile Developer at Five Pack
Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
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Top SchoolEthan Willis is a software engineer with 10 years of experience who builds pragmatic full-stack tools to streamline developer and researcher workflows. He maintains an open-source Zotero plugin that automates PDF retrieval and attachment — a project that includes build tooling, Sci‑Hub URL generation and even captcha-handling logic, showing his willingness to tackle brittle integration points. Known on GitHub as an "∞x developer", he combines scripting, extension development, and disciplined refactoring to turn repetitive tasks into reliable automation. Ethan focuses on plumbing-level solutions that save repeated manual effort and surface non-obvious edge cases during integrations. He brings systems thinking and hands-on execution to shipping small, high-impact developer tools.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Business Administration, Bachelor of Science - BS, Business Administration at Oral Roberts University
Stackoverflow
950reputation
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Github Skills (15)
plugin-development10
javascript10
javascripts10
plugins10
plugin10
html-parsing9
calculus6
pug6
ajax6
sockets6
content-script6
db26
php6
dotenv6
java6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
ethanwillis/zotero-scihub
Aug 2018 - Apr 2022
A plugin that will automatically download PDFs of zotero items from sci-hub
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 4 reviews, 56 commits in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Ethan primarily focused on developing a Zotero plugin to automatically download PDFs from Sci-Hub. Their work included creating a build script for the add-on and implementing core functionality to generate Sci-Hub URLs and integrate PDF attachments into Zotero library items. They demonstrated further development by implementing the handling of captcha and the downloading of PDFs from Sci-Hub. Furthermore, they also refined the code by refactoring it.
pdfscipluginpdfsopenscience
ethanwillis/genenetwork2
Oct 2015 - Jun 2022
GeneNetwork (2nd generation)
Contributions:9 pushes, 8 branches in 6 years 8 months
bioinformaticstraitsgenenetwork
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