Brett Profitt
Lead Software Engineer at Elgg
Columbus, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolBrett Profitt is a Lead Software Engineer with 16 years of experience building and maintaining large web applications and open-source social networking software from Columbus, Ohio. He is a core developer and long-time lead of the Elgg social networking engine, where his backend work has focused on refactoring, performance optimizations, access control, pagination and extensible hooks across the architecture. At MITRE and as an independent consultant he designs intuitive, consistent web service APIs, integrates third-party services, and delivers production-quality code for clients including the Department of Energy and Johns Hopkins. Brett blends deep PHP/MySQL and Linux expertise with practical engineering processes—automated testing, release management, and code quality standards—while balancing emerging technologies against proven solutions. He also brings uncommon perspective from community management and early childhood education, which informs his collaborative leadership and user-centered design.
16 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BME, Music Education, BME, Music Education at The Ohio State University--, Japanese Language and Culture, --, Japanese Language and Culture at University of Tsukuba
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Github Skills (9)
php10
back-end-development10
elgg10
mysql9
database-design8
javascript6
ckeditor6
post6
django6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
Elgg/Elgg
Jun 2009 - Jun 2017
A social networking engine in PHP/MySQL
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1746 commits, 18 PRs, 4 pushes in 8 years
Contributions summary:Brett's commits primarily focused on refactoring and enhancing the Elgg back-end code. They fixed bugs by modifying existing code in several files, including those related to user authentication, user profiles, and internal comments. The user also added new functionality by implementing features such as access control, pagination and menu items. They consistently improved the performance of core functions with optimizations, and added hooks throughout the Elgg architecture.
social-networkelggmysqlphpnetworking
Elgg/community_theme
Oct 2010 - Aug 2012
Theme for Elgg Community site
Contributions:20 commits in 1 year 10 months
elgg
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