Jeff Paetkau
Lead Elder (aka Pastor) at Broken Bread Church
Prince George, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJeff Paetkau is a seasoned web technologist and entrepreneur with 13+ years of professional experience and over 15 years building websites since the early 2000s. He runs ABC Web Link while serving as Lead Elder at Broken Bread Church, balancing technical leadership with community-focused pastoral work. Technically versatile, he has deep hands-on experience in XHTML/CSS, PHP, MySQL and C#.Net, and has contributed backend fixes to Concrete CMS—adding Imagick support and resolving image, form and auth issues. Known for clean, maintainable code and strong client relationships, Jeff manages projects end-to-end from infrastructure to UX and support. Based in Prince George, BC, he combines small-business pragmatism with open-source craftsmanship and a history of keeping sites running through many platform shifts. A detail-oriented problem solver, he still codes regularly while overseeing staff and operations.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
UNBC
Github Skills (10)
concrete510
application-framework10
app-framework10
web-framework10
content-management-system10
cms10
php10
content-management10
image-processing10
debug9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
concretecms/concretecms
Apr 2013 - Nov 2022
Official repository for Concrete CMS development
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 10 commits, 11 PRs in 9 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Jeff focused on improving the Concrete CMS backend, primarily by modifying core files related to image handling, form processing, and content types. Their contributions included adding support for Imagick for image processing, refining form submission logic to pass entry IDs to thank you pages, and resolving URL issues. They also addressed bugs related to file handling in the gallery block and fixed an issue with Twitter login keys.
cmsconcretephpframeworkconcrete5
JeffPaetkau/concrete5
May 2021 - Sep 2022
Official repository for concrete5 development
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
concrete5
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