Adrian Speyer
Vice President Marketing at MatchPoint
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolAdrian Speyer is a marketing and community leader with 14 years blending technology and growth, currently serving as VP Marketing & Tech at MatchPoint where he’s applying AI to reinvent in-person professional networking. He has a strong track record building and scaling membership communities, demand-gen programs, and product-led advocacy from roles at Customer Leaders Institute, Higher Logic, and Vanilla Forums, including creating a virtual conference that drew 2,000+ registrants. Technically fluent, he contributes to open-source projects like Vanilla Forums—improving plugins, security, and documentation—bringing hands-on backend and writing experience that keeps marketing tightly integrated with product. Based in Montreal, he’s adept at turning customer insight into automation, content and events that drive paid acquisition and retention, and he’s known for codifying community frameworks used across teams.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
DEC Liberal Arts, DEC Liberal Arts at CEGEP - John Abbott CollegeBachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at McGill University
English, French
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Github Skills (18)
plugin10
php10
forum10
vanilla-forums10
addon10
documentation10
html7
codeigniter6
api6
openid6
drupal6
browser6
matomo6
contactform6
google-analytics-api6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
vanilla/vanilla
Dec 2014 - May 2018
Vanilla is a powerfully simple discussion forum you can easily customize to make as unique as your community.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:37 commits, 21 PRs, 82 comments in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Adrian primarily focused on updating and correcting documentation within the Vanilla forum repository. The commits involve modifications to help links, documentation references, and tutorial access, across various settings and feature areas. These changes consistently update the documentation links to point to the most current version, and cover features like homepage configuration, embedding, and statistics.
vanilla-forumssimple-discussionphpforumdiscussion-board
vanilla/addons
May 2015 - Jun 2015
Official add-ons and tools for Vanilla Forums.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 11 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Adrian primarily focused on modifying existing add-ons for the Vanilla Forums platform. Their contributions involved enhancing the Feed Discussions plugin by adding features like displaying the source of the feed and improving the UI. Additionally, the user worked on security improvements by adding a 'nofollow' attribute to OpenID social login links and tightened permissions. These changes demonstrate an effort to improve functionality and user experience.
discourseadd-onsvanilla-forumsaddonsforum
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