Yannick Gingras
Nomadic Rock Climber at Python Software Foundation
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYannick Gingras is a seasoned software leader with 18+ years of experience, currently balancing hands-on engineering with outdoor training as a nomadic rock climber. Based in San Francisco, he previously built and operated at Facebook—from cache performance and site reliability to large-scale compute clusters and container management—and served as the Vancouver site lead. He has deep ties to the Python community as a Python Foundation Fellow and former PyCon co-chair, driving tooling, education, and ecosystem integration. Earlier in his career he founded Ajah and led teams at Pivotal Payments and Savoir-faire Linux, delivering scalable Python and cross-platform software and training teams. Since 2017 he has been self-employed as a nomadic rock climber, continuing to contribute to open source while merging a rigor for reliability with a passion for exploration.
18 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Université de Montréal
Github Skills (84)
cookies10
game-development10
game-engine10
user-guide10
multi-platform10
sensors10
open-source10
catalog9
godot9
netbsd9
wolfram-language9
maps9
openbsd9
python9
pipenv9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
ygingras/python-docs-fr
Sep 2020 - Apr 2022
French translation of the Python documentation.
Contributions:101 pushes, 17 branches in 1 year 7 months
python-documentationpythonfrench-translationtranslationfrench
ygingras/mtlpyweb
Jan 2021 - Oct 2023
Website of Montréal-Python
Contributions:12 pushes in 2 years 8 months
djangopythonpython3
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