Brian Sweeney
Senior Programmer Analyst at AAAS
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Sweeney is a senior programmer analyst with 17 years of experience designing and maintaining full-stack LAMP web applications, currently at AAAS and contributing to the dompdf open-source project. He spans systems administration through QA and deployment, with deep expertise in HTML, JavaScript, CSS, PHP, and SQL, and a track record of taking over legacy apps and improving robustness. His dompdf contributions show a knack for solving tricky text-encoding, font parsing, and SVG rendering issues—work that improves PDF generation reliability for many PHP users. Based in Washington, DC, he combines steady institutional experience in research-focused organizations with hands-on open-source engineering, and often surfaces subtle bugs that save downstream maintainers time.
17 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Mathematics, B.S., Mathematics at Oglethorpe University
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Github Skills (32)
path-manipulation10
character-encoding10
fonts10
utf10
css10
php10
font-face10
svg10
font-rendering10
text-processing10
pdf-generation10
eclipse10
truetype10
command-line-interface9
android-service9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dompdf/dompdf
Jun 2009 - Jan 2023
HTML to PDF converter for PHP
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:34 releases, 301 reviews, 633 commits in 13 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Brian's commits focused on modifying the CPDF adapter to enhance character encoding support and address issues with text rendering in PDF/A mode. They were responsible for ensuring UTF-8 character handling within PHP, converting text to UTF-8, updating string-handling functions, and converting non-Unicode strings to Windows-1252 encoding for the PDF to match the default encoding. Furthermore, the user also addressed issues where the current implementation of CSS counters didn't accurately render.
html-to-pdfphpdompdffontcss
dompdf/utils
Jan 2016 - Apr 2022
Utility scripts for use with the dompdf library
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 9 pushes in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the `load_font.php` utility script within the `dompdf/utils` repository. Their contributions included adding a command-line interface for loading fonts, clarifying variable usage, and integrating system font reporting from the `FontMetrics` class. They also addressed a specific reference issue, and introduced an autoloader for packaged versions of the library, updating the code to support system font installation and related dependencies.
dompdf
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