Kehan Harman
Technical Architect at Gaia Resources
Perth, Western Australia
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Top SchoolKehan Harman is a Technical Architect based in Perth with 13 years of experience building web applications for biodiversity informatics, citizen science and collections management. He combines domain expertise in botany, grass taxonomy and African ecosystems with hands-on full‑stack engineering—Drupal, PHP, MySQL, Linux and scripting—to deliver data transformation and social interaction tools. At Gaia Resources he leads projects and contributes botanical taxonomy expertise to software design, and earlier roles at NHM/GBIF and Kew married taxonomic curation with Drupal module development. An active contributor to open-source projects such as collectiveaccess/providence, he has implemented frontend fixes, localization and translatable plugin options, showing a practical breadth across UI and backend. His MSc in Applied Bioinformatics and history of standardising nomenclature to TDWG standards give him uncommon fluency at the intersection of biological data models and production systems. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex taxonomic requirements into robust, reusable data services and community-facing tools.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons), Botany, BSc (Hons), Botany at Rhodes UniversityMSc, Applied Bioinformatics, MSc, Applied Bioinformatics at Cranfield University
French, swati, Afrikaans
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (13)
php10
backend9
front-end-development9
back-end-development9
javascript9
localization8
html7
caching6
workspace6
google-chrome6
web-application6
mobile-safari6
ipad6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
collectiveaccess/providence
Feb 2013 - Nov 2022
Cataloguing and data/media management application
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:13 reviews, 171 commits, 109 PRs in 9 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Kehan contributed to fixing an autocomplete functionality for a related entity selector, indicating frontend development. The user also added an Australian English locale, likely involving backend and localization tasks. Further contributions involved making plugin options translatable, showing both frontend and backend work. In addition, the user worked on various features within the collectiveaccess/providence project, making the user a versatile full-stack developer.
intranetphpltimedia-managementpdo
rwahs/import-scripts
Feb 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:1 release, 244 commits, 48 PRs in 10 months
installationcollectiveaccess
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