Simon Grondin
Lead Developer, Co-founder at Failheap-challenge.com
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolSimon Grondin is a pragmatic engineering leader and co-founder with 13 years of experience building scalable web platforms, high-volume communities, and developer tools. Based in San Francisco, he leads Govpop.com’s full-stack development and operations while administering Failheap-Challenge, a community serving millions of monthly pageviews. His background spans server administration, DNS, data modeling, Node.js and Java backends, as well as front-end design and performance-focused PHP/MySQL engineering. He mixes research and applied engineering—having developed a compile-to-VHDL language targeting FPGA parallelization and publishing several quality NPM libraries. Simon also created a widely used, open-source technique to bypass government firewalls, demonstrating his knack for pragmatic, impactful systems work. He combines entrepreneurial drive with a preference for elegant, functional approaches to parallel and distributed problems.
13 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Génie informatique - Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering, Génie informatique - Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Université du Québec - Ecole de Technologie supérieureComputer Science Technical Degree (DEC-BAC en Informatique), Information Technology, Graduated, Computer Science Technical Degree (DEC-BAC en Informatique), Information Technology, Graduated at Cégep de Trois-Rivières
English, French
Github Skills (200)
end-to-end-encryption10
api-management10
reverse-proxy10
excelreader10
parser-combinators10
http10
docker-desktop10
effects10
http-client10
octokit-js10
serverless10
microservices10
cloud-native10
clustering10
concurrency10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
asemio/SZXX
Jul 2020 - Nov 2022
Streaming ZIP XML XLSX parser
Contributions:17 releases, 49 commits, 96 pushes in 2 years 5 months
parserxlsxxml
OK-Data-Exchange/okc-jail-blotter-processor
Feb 2020 - Apr 2022
Contributions:8 reviews, 1 PR, 26 pushes in 2 years 1 month
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