Brooke.
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarRichard Archambault is a seasoned project manager with 16 years in technology and customer-facing roles, currently leading delivery at Transit in Montreal. He brings a rare blend of operational discipline from long stints at Automattic and Canada World Youth and hands-on technical chops as a back-end contributor to the popular FreshRSS open-source project, where he modernized PHPMailer and improved PHP compatibility and CI tests. Comfortable translating user needs into reliable systems, he pairs a linguistics degree from Concordia with a pragmatic engineering mindset that helps bridge technical teams and nontechnical stakeholders. Known for steady problem-solving and improving legacy codebases, he excels at keeping projects secure, maintainable, and aligned with user experience.
16 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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74questions
wordpress
top-5%
Github Skills (12)
php10
phpmailer10
wordpress9
testing8
rss6
datetime6
buddypress6
datetime-format6
time-format6
jquery6
custom-post-type6
phpunit5
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
FreshRSS/FreshRSS
May 2020 - Nov 2021
A free, self-hostable news aggregator…
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 8 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Brooke. primarily focused on updating and upgrading the PHPMailer library within the FreshRSS project. Their contributions involved updating the library to newer versions, fixing security vulnerabilities, and ensuring compatibility with newer PHP versions. They also updated Travis configuration files to support newer PHP versions and corrected test class names.
rssrss-readerphprss-aggregatornews-aggregator
BrookeDot/WeatherRoof
Apr 2018 - Jan 2023
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
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