Gabriel Courtemanche, Developer in Montreal, QC, Canada

Gabriel Courtemanche

Software Developer

Location
Montreal, QC, Canada
Toptal Member Since
June 25, 2018

Gabriel is a highly efficient and reliable professional who possesses a broad skill set for web application development. He's been working on a range of products and clients—from working on scalability problems in production engineering teams at Shopify and Autodesk to launching new applications for startups. Most of his work consists of leading technical teams, by creating an easy development environment, fixing technical debts, providing best practices code examples, and mentoring devs.

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Portfolio

The Ticketing Co.
ESLint, Jest, PostgreSQL, Prisma, Express.js, GraphQL, React, TypeScript
Pentius
ESLint, Jest, Babel, Webpack, Lerna, Storybook, TypeScript, LitElement
Agility
Puppeteer, Storybook, Jest, MUI (Material UI), Styled-components, GraphQL...

Experience

HTML - 10 yearsJavaScript - 10 yearsCSS - 10 yearsExpress.js - 7 yearsDevOps - 6 yearsTest-driven Development (TDD) - 6 yearsJest - 3 yearsReact - 3 years

Location

Montreal, QC, Canada

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Git, MacOS

The most amazing...

...thing I've worked on is a continuous integration system that allows hundreds of developers to deploy in real time, dozens of times a day.

Work Experience

2020 - PRESENT

Chief Technology Officer

The Ticketing Co.
  • Restructured the software for the future growth of the company.
Technologies: ESLint, Jest, PostgreSQL, Prisma, Express.js, GraphQL, React, TypeScript
2020 - 2020

Lead Software Developer

Pentius
  • Built the foundations of a web components library to integrate into client's web applications.
  • Ensured that the library is lightweight, easy to extend and maintain.
  • Managed a small developer team (3 to 4 developers).
Technologies: ESLint, Jest, Babel, Webpack, Lerna, Storybook, TypeScript, LitElement
2018 - 2020

Senior Software Developer | Development Support Lead Product

Agility
  • Served as a second developer on a system modernization project.
  • Built the app architecture and design system components.
  • Implemented workflows and guidelines for code consistency, readability, maintainability, and testability.
  • Conducted R&D (research and development) for libraries and ways to improve our codebase.
  • Helped and mentored junior developers from various backgrounds.
Technologies: Puppeteer, Storybook, Jest, MUI (Material UI), Styled-components, GraphQL, Apollo, React Router, Redux, React
2019 - 2019

Senior Software Developer

Kindbody
  • Maintained and improved the client portal React application.
  • Implemented workflows and guidelines for code consistency, readability, maintainability, and testability.
  • Conducted R&D (research and development) for libraries and ways to improve our codebase.
Technologies: Lerna, Jest, TypeScript, Redux, React
2018 - 2019

Chief Technology Officer

AcciForm
  • Built a proof-of-concept web application for occupational health and safety needs.
Technologies: Styled-components, MUI (Material UI), Redux, React Native, React
2016 - 2017

Developer Acceleration (DevOps)

Shopify
  • Refactored and upgraded the continuous integration code of our main repository and created a gem to make available to other projects.
  • Initiated the migration of our CI infrastructure from AWS to Google Kubernetes Engine.
  • Maintained an internal tool that monitors all our internal and public services.
Technologies: RSpec, minitest, CircleCI, Buildkite, Kubernetes, Docker, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Ruby
2015 - 2015

DevOps

Autodesk
  • Maintained and improved the Shotgun Software web application server infrastructure.
  • Created a web application to update and manage Shotgun in the client environment.
Technologies: Capistrano, Rundeck, Docker, Vagrant, Bash, Angular, Python, Ruby
2014 - 2014

Full-stack Developer

CycleMap
  • Modeled the future database for iOS CycleMap application.
  • Wrote scripts that automated the decisions to add bike lanes to the application.
  • Created multiple web tools to use and modify the data in the database.
Technologies: jQuery, PostgreSQL, Node.js
2013 - 2013

Analyst Programmer

Government of Quebec | Minister of Health and Social Services
  • Developed a test automation and report generation application for an information system used in local community service centers.
Technologies: JavaScript, TestComplete, Crystal Reports, C#

Experience

Menoumm! Restaurant

I was hired to take all of the tech decisions (POS, menu TVs, email service, and so on) for an opening restaurant. I also developed the website while working with a designer. Sadly, the restaurant closed, but I put an online version of it that redacted any private information.

Skills

Languages

HTML5, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, GraphQL, Ruby, Python, Bash, C#

Frameworks

Redux, MUI (Material UI), Cypress, .NET, Jest, Express.js, React Native, Angular, Ruby on Rails (RoR), minitest, Ruby on Rails 5

Libraries/APIs

Node.js, React Redux, React, Redux-Saga, jQuery, Puppeteer, LitElement, React Router

Tools

React Apollo, Webpack, Babel, CircleCI, Git, Vagrant, Rundeck, Capistrano, Crystal Reports, Lerna, Prisma, RSpec

Paradigms

Management, E2E Testing, Unit Testing, Test-driven Development (TDD), Refactoring, DevOps, Agile

Industry Expertise

Accounting

Other

Freelancing, Algorithm Development, Leadership, Customer Service, Communication, Code Review, Front-end Development, Software Development, Full-stack, Styled-components, Apollo, Apollo Server, Gatsby, Storybook, ESLint

Platforms

Kubernetes, Linux, MacOS, Windows, Docker, TestComplete, Buildkite

Storage

MongoDB, PostgreSQL

Education

2013 - 2017

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering

Sherbrooke University - Sherbrooke, Canada

2009 - 2012

Associate's Degree in Computer Programming

Cégep Garneau - Quebec City, Canada