Robert Mac Neil
Lead Developer at The Webbuilders Group
Nova Scotia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Mac Neil is a Lead Developer with 14 years of hands-on experience building and stabilizing web applications from Nova Scotia. He combines computer science rigor and project management skills to lead projects at The Webbuilders Group, focusing on robust back-end solutions and CMS tooling. An active open-source contributor to the Silverstripe ecosystem, he has fixed core regressions, improved data handling, and added features like image cropping to the widely used silverstripe-framework and userforms modules. He is comfortable refactoring legacy patterns into modern equivalents and improving developer-facing components such as GridField and form builders. Known for systematic bug resolution and pragmatic refactors, he brings steady stewardship to long-lived PHP/MVC codebases.
15 years of coding experience
Dalhousie University
Github Skills (13)
cms10
php10
silverstripe10
refactoring10
refactor10
admin9
control-panel9
database-administration8
databases8
database-management8
database8
data-management8
javascript7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
silverstripe/silverstripe-userforms
Apr 2012 - Jul 2021
UserForms module provides a visual form builder for the Silverstripe CMS. No coding required to build forms such as contact pages.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 6 comments in 9 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Robert focused on refactoring and improving the Silverstripe UserForms module. Their contributions involved replacing legacy code patterns like `FieldSet` and `DataObjectSet` with modern equivalents such as `FieldList` and `ArrayList`. They also updated database interactions by replacing table fields with `GridField` and made adjustments to the application's structure, including tab organization, file path references, and the removal of unnecessary javascript validation calls.
cmssilverstripe
silverstripe/silverstripe-framework
Oct 2012 - Feb 2022
Silverstripe Framework, the MVC framework that powers Silverstripe CMS
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 25 commits, 21 PRs in 9 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Robert primarily contributed to fixing bugs and addressing regressions within the Silverstripe Framework. Their work involved modifying core files related to forms, the CMS, and the database. They focused on resolving issues related to data deletion, media insertion, filter panel styling, and data duplication, improving the overall functionality and stability of the framework. Furthermore, the user added support for new features such as a crop function for images.
cmsmvc-frameworksilverstripe
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