Antoine Roy-gobeil
Software Technical Lead at Plotly
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolAntoine Roy-Gobeil is a Software Technical Lead with 14 years of experience who builds modern, interactive visualization tools at Plotly, where he currently leads the Dashboard Engine. With a PhD in physics from McGill and a postdoc background, he brings a scientific rigor to front-end engineering and product-focused technical leadership. He has hands-on open-source contributions to the widely used plotly.js charting library—improving interactive Sankey diagrams, hover behavior, and testing—and has also improved Plotly's documentation. Known for blending deep analytical thinking with practical UX-sensitive UI work, he balances shipping reliable features with clear technical communication. Based in Montreal, he pairs his engineering career with a curiosity for cinema, basketball, and games, which often inform his attention to interaction and user experience.
14 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Physics at Université LavalDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics at McGill University
French, English
Github Skills (12)
data-visualizations10
javascript10
data-visualisation10
visualization10
d3js10
visualizations10
documentation10
plotly10
charting10
charts10
testing9
matlab6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
plotly/plotly.js
Aug 2018 - Mar 2021
Open-source JavaScript charting library behind Plotly and Dash
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 6 reviews, 726 commits in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Antoine primarily contributed to the front-end development of the charting library, focusing on the implementation of interactive elements within Sankey diagrams. Their work involved modifying the JavaScript code to disable or enable hover effects and to control the visibility of hover labels. They also added features to support the visualization of data, while ensuring consistency across the chart library. Their commits included tests to check label visibility and event data integration.
chartsdashcharting-librarychartwebgl
plotly/documentation
Sep 2018 - Jan 2020
Issue tracker for Plotly's open-source documentation.
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:10 commits, 8 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Antoine primarily focused on improving the documentation of the Plotly.js library. Their contributions included adding documentation for responsive configuration options, fixing a typo, removing a compilation directive, and correcting a directory name within the MATLAB documentation. Furthermore, the user made edits to the language navigation system.
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