Francis Gorman is a bilingual Senior IT Advisor with nearly a decade improving Canadians' digital services across Service Canada and Canada.ca, now focused on service design and partnerships to streamline internal processes and public delivery. He progressed from web publisher and developer to leading the Canada.ca Application Development team, overseeing front-end development and site search. A practical full-stack developer and SEO specialist, he operates a side business, Gorman Productions, and is launching a new product, Soumission éclair. His open-source contributions to the widely used Web Experience Toolkit highlight strengths in technical writing and localization, ensuring documentation quality for accessible, multilingual government sites. Collected technical leadership, hands-on coding, and content strategy make him adept at turning policy-driven requirements into user-centered web experiences.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Baccalauréat, Informatique, Baccalauréat, Informatique at Université du Québec en Outaouais
Web Experience Toolkit (WET): Open source code library for building innovative websites that are accessible, usable, interoperable, mobile-friendly and multilingual. This collaborative open source project is led by the Government of Canada.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer & Localization Specialist
Contributions:10 releases, 224 reviews, 161 commits in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Francis's commits primarily focus on updating and translating documentation files for the Web Experience Toolkit (WET-BOEW) project. These contributions include translating release notes, updating documentation to reflect build fixes, and providing French translations for plugin documentation. The user demonstrates a clear understanding of the project's structure and documentation standards by accurately translating content and ensuring that the documentation reflects changes in the codebase.
Web Experience Toolkit (WET): Open source code library for building innovative websites that are accessible, usable, interoperable, mobile-friendly and multilingual. This collaborative open source project is led by the Government of Canada.
Contributions:125 pushes, 21 branches in 3 years 11 months
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Francis Gorman - Senior Information Technology Advisor