Brad Touesnard
Member at SpinupWP
Nova Scotia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolBrad Touesnard is a seasoned founder and software leader with 14 years of experience building products and teams in the WordPress and web hosting ecosystem. He founded multiple companies—Zenutech, Delicious Brains (acquired by WP Engine), and SpinupWP—combining product vision with hands-on engineering and CEO-level execution. Based in Nova Scotia, he blends back-end systems expertise (notably on WordPress plugins integrating AWS S3 and CloudFront) with a history of frontend and e-commerce work at scale. Brad is an active open-source contributor whose WP-focused tooling has improved media delivery and database migration for thousands of users. He also creates community: he launched the Big Snow Tiny Conf and has repeatedly turned technical side projects into sustainable businesses. A father and husband, he pairs practical engineering discipline with long-term entrepreneurial commitment.
15 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Computer Science, Bachelor Computer Science at University of New Brunswick
English, French
Github Skills (11)
plugin-development10
wordpress10
database-management10
php10
file-management10
amazon-s310
mysql10
serialization9
data-serialization9
api9
apim9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
deliciousbrains/wp-migrate-db
Sep 2011 - Jul 2015
WordPress plugin that exports your database, does a find and replace on URLs and file paths, then allows you to save it to your computer.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 47 commits, 1 PR in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Brad primarily contributed to the core functionality of the WP Migrate DB plugin. Their work involved fixing bugs related to database export, including incorrect string lengths in serialized data and handling deprecated capabilities. They also implemented changes to the plugin's user interface and added new features. The user's changes updated the plugin version and included features for collecting user feedback and integrating a promo.
databasefilepathwordpress-plugin
deliciousbrains/wp-amazon-s3-and-cloudfront
Sep 2012 - Aug 2015
Automatically copies media uploads to Amazon S3 for delivery. Optionally configure Amazon CloudFront for even faster delivery.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 148 commits, 8 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Brad primarily contributed to the Amazon S3 and CloudFront plugin, implementing the integration of CloudFront features. Their work involved modifying the plugin's code to utilize Amazon CloudFront for faster delivery and managing media uploads to Amazon S3. They added functionalities to allow deleting files on S3 when deleting attachments and refactored code for general cleanup. These changes improved the plugin's functionality and file management.
amazon-cloudfrontamazon-s3
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