Patcon Connolly
Project Lead at Civic Tech Toronto
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolPatcon Connolly is a project lead and civic-technology practitioner with 15 years of experience building and coordinating open-source tools, democratic processes, and community organisations. He’s been an active Pol.is contributor and facilitator since 2016, a co-founder of Civic Tech Toronto and Hypha Worker Co-operative, and served as a Democracy and Human Rights fellow with the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy. Technically versatile across full-stack and backend work, his contributions span user-facing UX improvements and integrations (Liberapay) to robust messaging-bridge backend fixes (matterbridge). He blends developer craftsmanship, meetup-driven community organising, and systems thinking around plurality and living systems, often working at the intersection of technology and governance. Based in Toronto, he keeps practical civic infrastructure running week-to-week—an uncommon mix of ops, facilitation, and policy-facing research.
15 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BSc(Hons) Biochemistry, BSc(Hons) Biochemistry at Memorial University, Newfoundland and Labrador
Github Skills (25)
apim10
javascript10
jsbridge10
api-design10
php-java-bridge10
webpages10
web-content10
go10
api10
react-native-bridge10
front-end-development10
slack10
python9
mattermost9
vagrant6
Programming languages (32)
Github contributions (5)
42wim/matterbridge
Oct 2017 - Jan 2019
bridge between mattermost, IRC, gitter, xmpp, slack, discord, telegram, rocketchat, twitch, ssh-chat, zulip, whatsapp, keybase, matrix, microsoft teams, nextcloud, mumble, vk and more with REST API (mattermost not required!)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 commits, 40 PRs, 445 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Patcon primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the matterbridge project, focusing on improving Slack integration. Their work included fixing bugs in Slack message handling, such as correctly formatting mentions, channels, and variables. They also implemented features like synchronizing channel topics, supporting Mattermost threading, and resolving issues with file caching and downloading within the Slack bridge. Furthermore, they made general improvements to configuration loading and API health checks.
xmppwhatsappdiscordbotssh
CivicTechTO/trello-pitch-board
Apr 2017 - Oct 2022
Proof-of-concept for a Hacknight dashboard (backed by Trello)
Contributions:2 PRs, 36 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 7 months
hacknightbackeddashboardtrelloproof-of-concept
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