Adam Bard
Senior Software Developer at Later (for Reddit)
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Bard is a senior software developer in Canada with 15 years of professional experience and over 20 years building progressively complex websites and tools. He blends hands-on backend work—such as contributing language lexers to the widely used Rouge syntax highlighter—with long-term product work, including creating Later for Reddit and ongoing freelance web design. At Tapstream and now PerfectServe he’s shipped production-grade systems, and his background as a scientific programmer and electrical engineering graduate gives him a strong analytical edge. An active open-source contributor and technical writer, he surfaces both practical solutions and clear documentation, often tackling language support and syntax intricacies that most engineers overlook.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Electrical Engineering at University of Victoria
English
Stackoverflow
1,693reputation
380kreached
38answers
4questions
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Github Skills (20)
markdown10
matlab10
vba10
ruby10
markdown-it10
syntax-highlighting10
documentation10
image9
html9
groovy8
python8
php6
linux6
django6
oop6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
adambard/learnxinyminutes-docs
Jun 2013 - Nov 2022
Code documentation written as code! How novel and totally my idea!
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:1 review, 930 commits, 338 PRs in 9 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily contributed to the documentation of the `learnxinyminutes-docs` repository. They added and updated content in a variety of formats, including markdown and potentially code examples in Python. This involved creating and modifying files, correcting formatting, and ensuring the documentation was accurate and up-to-date. Their work focused on different programming languages and technologies.
as-codecode-documentationidea
rouge-ruby/rouge
Sep 2013 - Oct 2013
A pure Ruby code highlighter that is compatible with Pygments
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Adam primarily contributed to the development of language lexers within the Rouge project, specifically for Groovy, MATLAB, and Visual Basic. Their contributions included implementing basic syntax highlighting, adding keywords and built-ins, and correcting existing highlighting logic. The user's work focused on expanding the project's support for various programming languages.
pure-rubyrubyhighlightercode-highlighterpygments
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