Pierrick Charron
Release Manager at AdoY inc.
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolPierrick Charron is an experienced Release Manager and long-time PHP contributor with 16 years in software engineering, currently leading releases for PHP 8.2, 8.3 and upcoming 8.5 from Montreal. He combines deep hands-on development—maintaining extensions like cURL, STOMP and MQSeries—with release stewardship and solution architecture, ensuring language features and extensions ship reliably. As an open-source enthusiast and maintainer he has contributed backend fixes and features to notable projects such as a PHP OAuth2 library, improving authentication, MAC handling and certificate support. His background includes technical leadership and product team roles in publishing and web content management, working directly with large media clients. Fluent in both English and French documentation, he bridges developer ergonomics and production constraints. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who pairs protocol-level expertise with a strong sense for release quality and cross-team coordination.
16 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Licence Professionnelle Intégrateur et Concepteur de Systèmes Internet/Intranet, Licence Professionnelle Intégrateur et Concepteur de Systèmes Internet/Intranet at Université Nancy 2
French, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (9)
php10
curl10
oauth10
api-design9
restful-api9
rest-api9
api-rest9
http8
security7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
adoy/PHP-OAuth2
Apr 2011 - Jul 2022
Light PHP wrapper for the OAuth 2.0 protocol (based on OAuth 2.0 Authorization Protocol draft-ietf-oauth-v2-15)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:50 commits, 8 PRs, 12 pushes in 11 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Pierrick primarily contributed to the development of the php-oauth2 library by implementing features and fixing bugs related to the OAuth 2.0 protocol. Their work included modifications to client authentication, MAC signature handling, and the addition of features like certificate handling and getter methods. The user also improved the library's functionality by allowing raw data parameters and aligning with coding standards.
authorizationlightoauth-2phpphp-wrapper
adoy/Accept-Header-Parser
Feb 2012 - Sep 2019
PHP class to parse Accept HTTP header and sort accepted mime types according to the HTTP Specification (RFC2616)
Contributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 7 years 8 months
http-headermime-typesphp-classheaderspecification
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