RJ Garcia
Principal Full Stack Software Dev Engineer at Yahoo Finance
Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolRJ Garcia is a Principal Full Stack Software Development Engineer with 13 years of experience building and leading web engineering teams, currently based in Knoxville and driving architecture and delivery at Yahoo Finance. He has progressed from hands-on software roles to engineering leadership at companies like Stadium Goods and Bighead Technology, blending PHP backend expertise with full-stack capabilities. An active open-source contributor, RJ improved robustness and CI/CD for the popular PHP templating library Plates by adding exception handling, theme support, docs migration, and GitHub Actions automation. He is known for solving subtle production issues—such as fixing a variable leak in template rendering—while also modernizing developer workflows. With a BS in Computer Science from CSU Chico, RJ combines practical code-level problem solving with strategic team leadership to ship reliable systems at scale.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at CSU ChicoButte College
Github Skills (11)
code-templates10
apptemplates10
php10
html-template10
cpp-templates10
python-templates10
githubaction-workflow9
hugo9
github-ci9
testing8
cicd8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
thephpleague/plates
Dec 2016 - Jan 2023
Native PHP template system
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 1 review, 105 commits in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:RJ primarily contributed to the backend of the PHP template system, focusing on improving exception handling and adding theme support. They implemented exception handling within the template rendering process, ensuring more robust error management. Furthermore, they migrated the documentation to Hugo and set up GitHub Actions for CI/CD, replacing Travis. Finally, they fixed a variable leak issue within the template rendering function.
twig-extensiontemplate-enginetemplatetwigphp
krakphp/fn
Feb 2018 - Mar 2020
Functional library for PHP with proper currying
Contributions:31 releases, 75 commits, 13 PRs in 2 years 1 month
code-generationcurryfunctional-programmingphpcurrying
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