Julien Assouline
Technical Lead at TELUS
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolJulien Assouline is a Technical Lead and senior full-stack developer based in Toronto with nine years of experience building performant web applications, tools, and data visualizations. He specializes in modern front-end stacks (React, Next.js, Apollo/GraphQL) paired with PostgreSQL and has led migrations that improved performance by a third while eliminating downtime. At TELUS he architected and delivered complex projects, mentored teams, and translated technical trade-offs to stakeholders, while earlier roles include building the Toronto Blue Jays’ first React SPA for live scouting and data-heavy visualizations. Julien combines a data-journalism background and hands-on visualization experience (D3, Flourish) with production deployment know-how (Docker, OpenShift, Nginx), which helps him bridge design, analytics, and engineering. Always focused on testing and maintainability, he’s comfortable owning architecture through implementation and teaching others along the way. He’s currently deepening backend skills through formal Full Stack study while continuing to drive high-impact, user-focused systems.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Specialization in English Literature, Bachelor's Degree, Specialization in English Literature at Concordia UniversityFull Stack Developer, Full Stack Developer at RED AcademyPostBac data journalism, Data Journalism, PostBac data journalism, Data Journalism at Columbia University - Graduate School of JournalismToronto Metropolitan University
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Github Skills (24)
nodejs8
javascript7
http-client7
gganimate6
dplyr6
ggplot6
geopandas6
beautifulsoup6
shiny6
dataframe6
animation6
r6
apollo-server3
full-stack2
apollo2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
JulienAssouline/data-studios-projects
Jul 2017 - Jul 2019
Contributions:518 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
JulienAssouline/SpaceExplorer
May 2019 - Jan 2020
Using spaceX API to make a react apollo graphql app
Contributions:2 PRs, 35 pushes, 5 branches in 8 months
apireactreact-apolloapollo-servergraphql
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