Cam Findlay
Product Manager at Storypark
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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Top SchoolCam Findlay is a product manager and multidisciplinary open-source advocate with 15 years’ experience bridging technology and business across government, non-profit and commercial sectors. He specialises in turning complex stakeholder environments and emerging digital/data problems into pragmatic, user-centred product outcomes, having led major replatforms (including data.govt.nz) and driven measurable workflow improvements using Kanban. A connector and communicator, he builds social capital to sustain long-term strategic initiatives and is comfortable translating technical trade-offs into plain language for diverse audiences. Cam pairs hands-on technical experience—contributing backend fixes and migrations to notable open-source projects like the SilverStripe blog module—with people leadership and capability building. Based in Wellington, he’s equally at home coaching teams, running public engagement workshops, and experimenting with open data and open-source approaches to public service problems.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma of Multimedia, Multimedia, CDROM, 3D Modelling, 3D Animation, Web Developement, Diploma of Multimedia, Multimedia, CDROM, 3D Modelling, 3D Animation, Web Developement at National College of Design and Technology (Natcoll)B Com., Manangement, B Com., Manangement at University of CanterburyBachelor of Business Studies (BBS), Business Information Systems, Massey Scholar, Bachelor of Business Studies (BBS), Business Information Systems, Massey Scholar at Massey University
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Github Skills (12)
database-migrations10
compatibility10
compatible10
debug10
cms10
silverstripe10
versioning10
database-migration10
php10
backward-compatibility10
binary-compatibility10
fest8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
silverstripe/silverstripe-blog
Oct 2012 - Jul 2017
Blog module for Silverstripe CMS
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 17 PRs, 1 push in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Cam primarily focused on migrating and updating the blog module to newer versions of Silverstripe CMS. This involved fixing bugs related to the migration of older blog entries, tags, and widgets, ensuring data integrity across different versions. They also enhanced functionality by adding features such as configurable spam notifications and explicit setting of posts per page during migration. These changes centered around the core logic and data structures of the blog module.
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camfindlay/silverstripe-suspendspammer
Jan 2014 - Feb 2016
Contributions:1 release, 39 commits, 7 PRs in 2 years 1 month
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