André Leblanc
Co-Founder at Whimsy Forge
Saint Petersburg, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndré Leblanc is a seasoned software leader and founder with 11 years of experience building and managing product-focused engineering teams, primarily in the Ruby on Rails ecosystem. He has led growth and self-service initiatives at TaxJar—contributing to its success and eventual acquisition by Stripe—and later drove cross-platform teams at Trusted Health and Shopify, shipping features from vector search and GPT integrations to mobile apps. Comfortable as both an individual contributor and manager, he emphasizes rapid delivery, reduced system complexity, and strong team culture across remote and international teams. Now co-founding Whimsy Forge, André blends hands-on full‑stack craftsmanship with pragmatic leadership and a knack for turning annoying problems into delightful, customer-facing solutions. An early career in creative agencies and hands-on product roles gives him a rare mix of technical depth and product storytelling sensibility.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at Regis University
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Github Skills (82)
jquery10
javascript9
visual-studio-extension9
database9
kairosdb9
rust8
druid8
highcharts8
smartystreets8
monitoring8
epic8
timeseries-database8
react8
time-series8
css8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
andremleblanc/jruby-druid
Jul 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:5 releases, 43 commits, 27 PRs in 1 year 1 month
jrubyadapterdruid
andremleblanc/frc
Dec 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:40 PRs, 95 pushes, 37 branches in 4 months
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