Brian Foy
Owner Publisher at CPAN
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Foy is a veteran Perl author, developer, and educator with nearly three decades of experience helping people make Perl practical—from writing multiple editions of Learning Perl and Programming Perl to publishing The Perl Review. He runs consulting and training services, maintains a long-standing presence on CPAN with numerous modules (some included in the Perl core), and served as a PAUSE admin shepherding package stewardship and handoffs. Based in New York, he favors pragmatic solutions with minimal moving parts and often argues that the best fix may require no code at all. Outside tech he applies hands-on problem solving in disaster relief as a chainsaw instructor and heavy-equipment operator, a detail that speaks to his blend of technical rigor and practical grit.
28 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS Chemistry, BS Chemistry at Humboldt State University
English
Stackoverflow
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1,940answers
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Github Skills (200)
testing10
low-level10
perl10
url-parsing10
extractor10
thunderbird10
xmp10
azerothcore10
github-api10
html10
julia10
json10
database-access10
shorturl10
gitignore10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
briandfoy/tie-stringarray
Jan 2015 - Jan 2023
Store an array as a string
Contributions:3 releases, 108 commits, 16 PRs in 8 years 1 month
arraystringjavascripttieperl
madsen/p5-Palm
Aug 2009 - Dec 2013
Contributions:25 commits in 4 years 4 months
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