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Darren Ethier (nerrad)

Engineering Director at Automattic

@nerrad Ontario, Canada joined Nov 2006

unfoldingneurons.com github.com/nerrad

    Bio

    Hi there! I currently work for Automattic as a software engineer. My passion is developing useful and pretty code. I also love anything to do with leadership and the wise use of words.

    (I love contributing to the WordPress project on my own time!)

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    Core Contributor '15 Plugin Developer
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    B BuddyPress Contributor '19 WordCamp Speaker '22

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    Engineering Director
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    Automattic

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    April 2026
    Apr 04 Sat · 14:02
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to [BUG] WooCommerce 10.6.1 – Analytics Dashboard Crash: “tz is not a function”, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I did some digging @emacencini and I'm convinced this is due to a plugin conflict…
    Apr 04 Sat · 12:35
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    Posted a reply to [BUG] WooCommerce 10.6.1 – Analytics Dashboard Crash: “tz is not a function”, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    @emacencini it looks like at least one other person has reported this being due to…
    July 2025
    Jul 03 Thu · 00:37
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    Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Introduce Maintenance Mode For Components, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    I like this proposal. It makes decisions more straightforward for what to do with the…
    November 2024
    Nov 13 Wed · 16:56
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to WooCommerce Carding Attack (different IPs), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi there, Carding attacks are the bane of online commerce! A solution like Anti-Fraud for…
    Nov 13 Wed · 16:17
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Problem with Google Merchant center plugin Woocommerce – Cannot get any support, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Are the login issues still happening for you @qrest? I've done some checks internally as…
    Nov 12 Tue · 16:30
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Extremely high memory usage in browser and 503 error on Product editing, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Do the affected products have a large amount of variations/attributes? I noticed you have a…
    Nov 12 Tue · 15:20
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Extremely high memory usage in browser and 503 error on Product editing, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi there! I see you mentioned this only appears to be happening to certain (duplicated)…
    Nov 11 Mon · 18:47
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    Posted a reply to Problem with Google Merchant center plugin Woocommerce – Cannot get any support, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi there, I posted an update in a separate thread about this issue. Submitting a ticket via…
    Nov 11 Mon · 18:44
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    Posted a reply to Official “Get Support” broken (for paid official plugins), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi there, I posted an update in a separate thread about this issue. Submitting a…
    Nov 11 Mon · 18:39
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    Posted a reply to ‘502 Bad Gateway’ error always keep, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    You may need to set the max_input_vars configuration for PHP on your server to a…