Tom Rochette
Software Engineer at eXolnet
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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RockstarTom Rochette is a seasoned software engineer based in Montreal with 16 years of experience and a current focus on AI development. He blends backend and DevOps expertise, contributing to notable open-source projects like the popular PHP deployment tool Deployer, where he implemented directory-aware command execution and improved release handling. Tom is skilled at shipping pragmatic tooling improvements—fixing bugs, parsing edge-case paths, and hardening integrations such as PhpSecLib—to make deployment workflows more reliable. Comfortable across infrastructure and application layers, he brings a steady, detail-oriented approach to solving operational complexities that often hide in deployment pipelines.
16 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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21answers
12questions
Github Skills (16)
git10
php10
deploying10
devops10
symfony-ux8
symfony8
server-administration7
oop6
version-control6
struct6
java-native-interface6
docker6
osdev6
operating-system6
dockers6
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
deployphp/deployer
Feb 2015 - Mar 2015
The PHP deployment tool with support for popular frameworks out of the box
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:8 commits, 11 PRs, 39 comments in 20 days
Contributions summary:Tom contributed to the project by implementing new features, fixing bugs, and improving the overall functionality of the deployment tool. They added the `cd` and `within` functions to change the working directory and execute commands, and they updated the code to use date('YmdHis') for release representation. Furthermore, the user addressed issues by creating shared directory paths in release directories, parsing paths, and handling potential errors in the PhpSecLib.
continuous-deploymentboxdeploymentdeployphp
tomzx/book-reading-statistics
Aug 2017 - Sep 2020
Contributions:13 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
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