Gil Desmarais
Senior Fullstack Engineer at Caspar Health
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolGil Desmarais is a Senior Fullstack Engineer based in Berlin with over a decade of experience turning business problems into pragmatic software solutions. He is primarily a Ruby/Rails specialist but has recently expanded into TypeScript and Rust, reflecting a curiosity for performant, type-safe tooling. Gil has shipped full-stack features across startups and product teams—from backend systems at Moviepilot to leading engineering work at Durch die Stadt and now Caspar Health—bridging product needs and technical execution. Known for a data-informed approach ("No data? No decision!"), he combines pragmatic engineering with a focus on measurable outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) at Jade University of Applied Sciences
English, German, Spanish
Github Skills (135)
programming-language10
ruby10
lazyload10
sounds10
rss10
javascript10
feed10
css-selectors10
headless-browser10
html10
rust10
music10
json10
puppeteer10
scrape10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
gildesmarais/website
Feb 2015 - Jul 2026
My website and blog.
Contributions:15 PRs, 76 pushes, 20 branches in 11 years 7 months
html2rss/html2rss.github.io
Jun 2020 - Oct 2022
Our website. Serves project documentation and showcases out of the box available feeds.
Contributions:2 reviews, 47 commits, 99 PRs in 2 years 3 months
html2rssfeed-configshtml2rss-configshtml2rss-webconfigs
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