Deven Caron
Lead Front-end Developer at Locomotive
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolDeven Caron is a Montreal-based Lead Front-end Developer with 7 years of experience crafting performance-minded web experiences for ecommerce, fashion, and music brands. At Locomotive he blends hands-on engineering with a creative background—previously Creative Director and co‑founder—to bridge design sensibility and advanced front-end interactions. He contributes to notable open-source work like locomotive-scroll, where he fixed a smooth-scrollbar crash and added browser-specific performance tweaks to improve cross‑browser parallax and scrolling. Grounded in a DEC in Microédition et Hypermédia, he focuses on UX, maintainable code, and shipping polished, high-performance interfaces.
7 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
DEC, Microédition et Hypermédia, DEC, Microédition et Hypermédia at Collège Shawinigan
French, English
Github Skills (5)
smooth-scrolling10
javascript10
javascripts10
parallax10
front-end-development9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
locomotivemtl/locomotive-scroll
Oct 2018 - Feb 2022
🛤 Detection of elements in viewport & smooth scrolling with parallax.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 1 review, 27 commits in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Deven contributed to the project by fixing a crash related to smooth-scrollbar when the speed was set to zero. They also worked on extending the scroll and vendors system, modifying the application's JavaScript. Further work was done to add a firefoxMultiplier option in a minimized version of the project, indicating involvement in performance optimizations or cross-browser compatibility.
parallaxsmooth-scrollingin-viewscrollscrolling
locomotivemtl/astro-boilerplate
Aug 2024 - Mar 2025
Astro project boilerplate by Locomotive
Contributions:9 reviews, 22 PRs, 64 pushes in 6 months
astrojstailwindcss
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