Brian Nesbitt
CTO at Markido
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Nesbitt is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 14+ years building product-driven teams and commercial software from Ottawa. He co-founded Fuel Industries and now leads Markido, where his team ships an Engage PowerPoint add-in that automates data-linked slide design for thousands of users. A hands-on back-end engineer by training (Carleton B.Eng, Computer Systems), Brian contributes to prominent PHP open-source projects like Slim and Carbon, improving test quality and date/time APIs. His background includes early systems work at Lockheed Martin, giving him a disciplined engineering approach to product reliability and QA. Known for blending product persuasion with technical execution, he focuses on making complex automation feel effortless for end users.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Systems, Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Systems at Carleton University
Github Skills (10)
micro-framework10
datetime10
php10
datetimes10
unit-test10
phpunit10
testing10
psr-79
psr-38
slim-framework7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
briannesbitt/Carbon
Sep 2012 - Mar 2018
A simple PHP API extension for DateTime.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:575 commits, 395 PRs, 371 pushes in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily focused on improving the Carbon PHP library, which is a simple API extension for DateTime. They implemented changes related to PHP code styling, and improved various methods and functionalities. This included adding features for getting the current date and time.
datetimeapiphpphp-api
slimphp/Slim
Jun 2012 - Sep 2012
Slim is a PHP micro framework that helps you quickly write simple yet powerful web applications and APIs.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:31 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily contributed to testing and improving the Slim framework. They focused on augmenting existing tests with output buffering for correct behavior and ensuring no output buffers were left open, addressing previous issues. Additionally, the user implemented new tests for a pretty exceptions middleware, verifying the correct handling of content types. Further contributions included code improvements, such as simplifying an mcrypt extension check and fixing bracket wrapping.
micro-frameworkguzzlephp-frameworkslim-frameworksimple-yet-powerful
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