Rich Tape
Software Engineer at Friendly Design Ltd
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRich Tape is a software engineer with nearly 20 years of professional experience building web systems across small, medium and large organizations, currently focused on education technology at the University of British Columbia. He spans the full stack—comfortable with infrastructure and DevOps as well as performant front- and back-end development—and helps run one of the largest WordPress Multisite installs in the world. A proud WordPress core contributor and author of widely used plugins, he runs workshops, speaks internationally, and helps teams adopt AI tools to accelerate engineering and learning workflows. Deeply committed to web accessibility, he pairs practical engineering with advocacy and training to make sites usable for everyone. Unusually for an engineer, he also brings extensive hands-on leadership experience from hospitality management and a background in physics with astrophysics, which together inform his pragmatic, people-first approach.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Physics with Astrophysics, Physics with Astrophysics at The University of Manchester
French, German, English
Stackoverflow
21,245reputation
2.6mreached
31answers
13questions
wordpress
top-5%
Github Skills (184)
wordpress10
siteorigin10
eventbrite10
wordpress-plugin10
wordpress-api9
gutenberg9
page-builder9
plugin9
widgets9
visible9
blocks9
svn9
wordpress-shortcode9
advanced-custom-fields9
linux8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ubc/course-shortcode
May 2015 - Apr 2024
Contributions:5 PRs, 10 pushes, 1 tag in 9 years
ubc/mca
Mar 2016 - Sep 2021
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 tag, 1 comment in 5 years 7 months
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