Rolly Fordham
Engineering Manager QSIC
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolRolly Fordham is an experienced engineering manager and systems architect with over 17 years delivering scalable web and distributed systems from Sydney. He combines hands-on engineering in Go, TypeScript, JavaScript and Rust with leadership experience growing teams, introducing RFC-driven design, CI/CD, and test-driven practices to improve reliability and reduce incidents to near zero. Rolly has led infrastructure and product teams through major cost and performance wins—cutting data-read bills by orders of magnitude and saving 20–30% in infrastructure spend—while mentoring engineers on process and on-call resilience. He occasionally consults on thorny architecture and team-effectiveness problems and has contributed practical back-end fixes to open-source projects like premailer-rails. Known for empowering teams to make decisions while providing clear direction, he thrives on turning messy, operational pain into robust, maintainable systems.
17 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information Sciences Computer Science and Information Systems, Bachelor of Information Sciences Computer Science and Information Systems at Massey University
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Github Skills (7)
css10
ruby-rails10
rails10
gemspec10
gemfile10
rubygems10
ruby10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
fphilipe/premailer-rails
Jun 2011 - Jul 2011
CSS styled emails without the hassle.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 29 days
Contributions summary:Rolly focused on enhancing the `premailer-rails` gem, which styles emails with CSS. Their contributions involved modifying the code to include CSS files from HTML body tags. This included changes to how the gem parses and injects CSS, and refactoring code for clarity. The user also fixed a syntax issue to ensure correct query execution.
cssemailinline-cssrailsruby
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