Brian Teeman
Founder at Joomla!, Open Source Matters, Inc.
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBrian Teeman is a founder and seasoned web technologist with 14 years' experience building and shaping the Joomla project and related web solutions from Leeds, UK. As co-founder of Joomla and current leader at Open Source Matters, he blends hands-on back-end development—bug fixes, feature work and code quality improvements—with product-focused consulting through Joomla Training. His open-source footprint spans notable projects like the Joomla CMS and contributions to community tools such as ChurchCRM and Qodo’s PR-Agent, where attention to detail improved both functionality and documentation. Known for turning website needs into pragmatic solutions, he pairs entrepreneurial leadership with an uncommon appetite for polishing code, UX and install/upgrade flows that impact thousands of sites.
14 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Leeds Grammar School
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
python10
back-end-development10
crm10
joomla10
refactor10
code-review10
php10
git-pull10
html10
pullrequest10
refactoring10
css9
databases9
openai9
database9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
joomla/joomla-cms
Dec 2011 - Jan 2023
Home of the Joomla! Content Management System
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2551 reviews, 3300 commits, 4352 PRs in 11 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Brian's contributions primarily focused on improving the Joomla CMS codebase through bug fixes, feature implementations, and code refactoring. They addressed issues related to the dashboard admin submenu modules, installation processes, the functionality of existing templates, and improved the codebase by enhancing the styling of modules. The user also added the ability to set the correct version number for the framework, and corrected typos to ensure code quality.
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ChurchCRM/CRM
Feb 2021 - Mar 2021
ChurchCRM - A free and open-source Church Management Software (ChMS) to help churches manage their membership data, groups, events, and finances.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 reviews, 12 commits, 19 PRs in 5 days
Contributions summary:Brian primarily contributed to the front-end and back-end aspects of the ChurchCRM project. They updated user interface elements, including correcting the display of admin user permissions and modifying dashboard functionality. Additionally, the user addressed various code-related issues like correcting font colors and markup within the system's editor and pledge management sections, while also incorporating schema changes.
cmsphpchurchdatabasecrm
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