Adam Charron
Software Architect at Higher Logic
United States
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Top SchoolAdam Charron is a software architect with a hands-on background in full-stack web development, currently shaping product architecture at Higher Logic after progressing from technical team lead roles. He excels at reducing friction between people and software, having driven initiatives like a declarative theming engine that eliminated 100k+ lines of per-client CSS and migrated search from Sphinx to Elasticsearch. Adam has led delivery of high-impact features—shipping a WYSIWYG editor as the default across a platform with hundreds of millions of users and building integrated help-desk and forum systems—while maintaining legacy PHP applications and introducing React components incrementally. Comfortable across PHP, TypeScript/JavaScript, and cloud CI/CD pipelines, he balances product-focused design with pragmatic engineering to accelerate releases. Early experience building and marketing a clinic website shows he pairs technical craft with user-centered thinking and measurable community impact.
2 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Concordia University
English, French
Github Skills (47)
flarum10
forum10
vanilla-forums10
php9
addon8
json-schema7
code-behind7
validation7
transifex7
discourse7
php-library6
dependency-injection6
di-container6
injection6
ioc-container6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
vanilla/garden-sites
Oct 2023 - Nov 2024
Library for managing providing a list of sites and clusters from localhost or an orchestration server.
Contributions:6 releases, 2 reviews, 11 PRs in 1 year 1 month
vanilla/garden-git
Jan 2024 - Mar 2025
Object oriented PHP library for working with git.
Contributions:5 releases, 1 review, 5 PRs in 1 year 2 months
object-orientedphp-libraryphp
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