Bruce Aldridge
Head Of AI Engineering at Agentic Intelligence
Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
Summary
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RockstarBruce Aldridge is a Head of AI Engineering based in Christchurch with over 20 years in software development and 14 years of focused professional experience building web and backend systems. He transitioned from senior engineering roles at Automattic and Agility CIS to lead AI engineering at Agentic Intelligence, blending hands-on coding with technical leadership. His background includes long-term web development, leading teams as a lead developer, and operational stewardship in community organizations, showing a balance of product delivery and governance. An active contributor to open-source PHP tooling, he extended the Yasumi holiday library with region-specific logic and precise date rules, reflecting attention to edge cases and quality assurance. Bruce brings a practical, production-first approach to shipping reliable systems and operationalizing ML/AI efforts. He’s known for turning nuanced domain rules into robust code, a skill that surfaces in both legacy web platforms and modern AI initiatives.
14 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (15)
testing10
php10
lib10
image9
javascript9
browser9
html9
http9
unit-testing8
yii6
wordpress6
file-upload6
jquery6
apache6
associative-array6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
azuyalabs/yasumi
Sep 2016 - Jan 2020
The easy PHP Library for calculating holidays
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 5 comments in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Bruce primarily contributed to the `Yasumi` library by adding support for holidays in the Australia\Victoria region, incorporating features for determining working days, and renaming functions. They also implemented and tested holiday calculations, including the addition of the AFL Grand Final Friday dates for 2019 and 2020. The user's contributions involved extending the holiday calculation logic and ensuring its accuracy.
easy-phpphpcalculate-holidayscalculationsapi
webtoolsnz/yii2-importer
Aug 2018 - Jul 2021
Contributions:8 releases, 2 reviews, 8 pushes in 2 years 11 months
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