Adam Bard
Senior Software Developer at PerfectServe
Canada
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Top SchoolAdam Bard is a Senior Software Developer based in Canada with over 14 years of professional experience and more than 20 years crafting websites and web apps. He’s a pragmatic full-stack engineer who designs cloud-native services and UIs—everything from Kubernetes- and Docker-based architectures to Go/Python backends and React/TypeScript frontends—having implemented a custom authenticating API gateway and a high-throughput event/audit log (Postgres, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ). Adam is also an entrepreneur who independently built Later for Reddit, a SaaS post-scheduling product, and has a long freelance history delivering client projects. An active open-source contributor, he’s expanded language support in the popular Rouge syntax highlighter (Groovy, MATLAB, Visual Basic) and helped maintain learnxinyminutes documentation. He mentors teams, leads code reviews and sprint planning, and once rescued a major customer by executing an urgent frontend performance refactor on a legacy React codebase.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Electrical Engineering at University of Victoria
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (21)
markdown10
documentations10
matlab10
vba10
ruby10
markdown-it10
syntax-highlighting10
documentation10
image9
html9
groovy8
python8
php6
linux6
django6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
adambard/learnxinyminutes-docs
Jun 2013 - Nov 2022
Code documentation written as code! How novel and totally my idea!
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:1 review, 930 commits, 338 PRs in 9 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily contributed to the documentation of the `learnxinyminutes-docs` repository. They added and updated content in a variety of formats, including markdown and potentially code examples in Python. This involved creating and modifying files, correcting formatting, and ensuring the documentation was accurate and up-to-date. Their work focused on different programming languages and technologies.
as-codecode-documentationidea
rouge-ruby/rouge
Sep 2013 - Oct 2013
A pure Ruby code highlighter that is compatible with Pygments
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Adam primarily contributed to the development of language lexers within the Rouge project, specifically for Groovy, MATLAB, and Visual Basic. Their contributions included implementing basic syntax highlighting, adding keywords and built-ins, and correcting existing highlighting logic. The user's work focused on expanding the project's support for various programming languages.
pure-rubyrubyhighlightercode-highlighterpygments
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