RC Lachance
Forward Deployed Engineer at Cinder
Portland, Maine, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRC Lachance is a hands-on AI engineering leader and Forward Deployed Engineer with 13 years of experience building safety-critical platforms and Trust & Safety tooling. He has led deep learning teams at Automattic, delivering measurable gains in content classification while pioneering AI-assisted development and agentic workflows for operational tooling. As a founding engineer he helped create a HIPAA-compliant AI workflow platform to make care coordination economically viable in underserved areas, and now applies that same product-minded engineering to safety initiatives at Cinder. His open-source contributions include full-stack improvements to Automattic’s popular Jetpack plugin, demonstrating practical attention to compatibility, performance, and ad safety. Based in Portland, Maine, he blends technical leadership, product strategy, and hands-on code delivery to bridge business outcomes with robust engineering. Collected across roles from developer to interim director, he’s known for translating complex policy and legal constraints into deployable, auditable systems.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
UMass Lowell
Github Skills (8)
plugin-development10
wordpress10
php10
javascript10
jquery9
css9
html8
react6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/jetpack
Sep 2017 - Mar 2020
Security, performance, marketing, and design tools — Jetpack is made by WordPress experts to make WP sites safer and faster, and help you grow your traffic.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:35 commits, 26 PRs, 54 pushes in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:RC primarily contributed to the Jetpack plugin by modifying the contact form module. Their work involved adding support for the "date" field by integrating a jQuery datepicker, converting HTML5 date input to text fields for better browser compatibility, and updating associated CSS and JavaScript files. Furthermore, the user updated the contact form to incorporate the use of HTML5 URL fields, and added support for ads.txt. The user also made several changes to the WordAds module, including removing DNS prefetch for unused scripts, promoting the Ad widget, adding ads.txt support, introducing a shortcode for inline ad placements, updating the display of the EU Cookie Law Widget, and ensuring ads are only displayed on safe sites.
reactexpertswordpressphpsecurity
INN/term-debt-consolidator
Feb 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:149 commits, 5 PRs, 48 pushes in 5 months
wordpressconsolidationwordpress-plugintags
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