Pat Heard
Site Reliability Engineer at cds-snc
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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RockstarPat Heard is a Site Reliability Engineer based in Ottawa with 13 years of experience ensuring web platforms run reliably and accessibly. He blends SRE practices with hands-on front-end skills, contributing to the Government of Canada's prominent WET-BOEW open-source toolkit by improving responsive image support and fixing accessibility-focused polyfills. Comfortable working across infrastructure and client-side code, Pat focuses on pragmatic, resilient solutions that improve usability for diverse users and devices. His background suggests a knack for finding and fixing subtle interoperability and accessibility issues that often hide at the intersection of browser behavior and operational concerns.
13 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (29)
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Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
wet-boew/wet-boew
Aug 2012 - Apr 2014
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:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:367 commits, 1 issue in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Pat primarily contributed to the implementation of various front-end components and features within the WET-BOEW framework. This involved adding and modifying JavaScript code for different plugins such as data-picture, toggle, and feedback. Their work improved the framework's capabilities by integrating support for responsive images using Picturefill and enhancing the usability of existing components. Additionally, the user fixed a bug in one of the accessibility-focused polyfills, ensuring better overall functionality.
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cds-snc/cds-superset-docs
Feb 2025 - Apr 2025
Doc site for Superset
Contributions:32 reviews, 74 PRs, 82 pushes in 1 month
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