Robert O'rourke
Principal Product Engineer at Altis DXP
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRobert O'rourke is a Principal Product Engineer with 15+ years building web and WordPress-based systems, currently shaping the Altis DXP and contributing to Human Made's platform work. He has evolved from front-end design into backend, infrastructure, microservices, Node/React applications and recent data science/machine learning projects, bringing a full-stack lens to product engineering. An active open-source contributor, he’s improved tooling and plugins used widely in the WordPress ecosystem — from S3 uploads and shortcode UIs to performance tweaks in Yoast and migration tooling like Search-Replace-DB. He combines pragmatic engineering with product-minded research to deliver robust, production-ready features, and quietly pairs a background in virology with a taste for cryptic crosswords, climbing and origami.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Virology, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Virology at University of Bristol
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Github Skills (41)
unit-testing10
javascript10
shortcode10
back-end-development10
mysql10
image10
testing10
plugin-development10
css10
wordpress10
background-image10
phpunit10
php10
amazon-s310
visual-regression-testing10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
interconnectit/Search-Replace-DB
Dec 2011 - May 2014
This script was made to aid the process of migrating PHP and MySQL based websites. Works with most common CMSes.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:57 commits, 1 comment in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Robert contributed to the "search-replace-db" project by implementing and refining the PHP-based script's functionality. Their work focused on addressing UTF-8 encoding issues, adding the ability to replace strings with nothing, and incorporating a command-line interface (CLI) script. They also improved the script's robustness by fixing potential errors and enhancing the user interface for improved usability. Furthermore, they updated the project's documentation.
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humanmade/S3-Uploads
Aug 2016 - Jul 2021
The WordPress Plugin to Store Uploads on Amazon S3
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 4 reviews, 14 commits in 5 years
Contributions summary:Robert primarily contributed to the core functionality of the WordPress plugin, `s3-uploads`, which stores uploads on Amazon S3. Their commits demonstrate an understanding of WordPress plugin development, particularly image handling and metadata extraction. The user focused on adding features like image metadata filtering and modifying tests to reflect the changes. They also addressed warnings and updated dependencies for improved functionality.
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