Eliot Jones
.NET Developer at SFW Ltd.
UK, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarEliot Jones is a .NET developer based in the UK with 11 years of experience focused on file formats and backend engineering. He contributes to notable open-source projects like PdfPig, where he has deep experience fixing font-handling bugs and improving PDF parsing for Type 1, TrueType and CFF CID fonts to ensure robust text extraction. Eliot combines practical systems-level problem solving with attention to edge cases in encoding and tokenization, making him adept at turning messy binary formats into reliable, consumable data. His work shows a preference for durable, low-level fixes that improve downstream reliability rather than surface features.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (7)
font-face10
character-encoding10
fonts10
truetype10
pdf-parsing10
c-language8
cprogramming-language8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
UglyToad/PdfPig
Nov 2017 - Jan 2023
Read and extract text and other content from PDFs in C# (port of PDFBox)
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:29 releases, 202 reviews, 854 commits in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Eliot primarily focused on improving the PDF parsing functionality of the PDFPig library. Their contributions included fixing bugs related to font handling, particularly for Type 1 and TrueType fonts, such as handling missing or corrupted entries in these font types. They also enhanced support for Compact Font Format (CFF) CID fonts and addressed string tokenization to correctly interpret unicode characters.
csharppdfboxpdfpdf-documentnetstandard
EliotJones/BigGustave
Mar 2019 - Aug 2021
C# .NET Standard PNG decoder and PNG library
Contributions:6 releases, 4 reviews, 56 commits in 2 years 5 months
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