Adam Charron
Software Architect at Higher Logic
United States
Summary
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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 (40)
flarum10
php10
forum10
vanilla-forums10
beautifier9
bbcode9
parser9
autoformat9
minifier8
parsing8
transifex8
javascript8
linter8
rendering7
typescript7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
vanilla/garden-git
Jan 2024 - Jan 2026
Object oriented PHP library for working with git.
Contributions:5 releases, 1 review, 5 PRs in 2 years
php-libraryproduction
vanilla/garden-sites
Oct 2023 - Jun 2026
Library for managing providing a list of sites and clusters from localhost or an orchestration server.
Contributions:12 releases, 2 reviews, 13 PRs in 2 years 9 months
localhostproduction
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