Avery Morin
Software Engineer at Figma
Bedford, New Hampshire, United States
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Top SchoolAvery Morin is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building end-to-end products and developer tooling, currently contributing at Figma from Bedford, NH. Comfortable across the full stack, Avery has shipped production systems at startups and enterprise teams—authoring GraphQL APIs and browser-compiled OCaml for the Mina blockchain, leading dev tooling and CI/CD at Zynq, and modernizing infrastructure at The Voleon Group and Microsoft. They favor pragmatic, prototype-heavy development that validates features quickly, and have a knack for integrating with locked-down or legacy systems (including an Electron app to bridge on-prem access control). An active open-source contributor, Avery has improved core functionality in notable projects like the unofficial facebook-chat-api and Mina protocol, reflecting an interest in type theory and “weird old code” no one else wants to touch. Not open to relocation, they combine product-focused engineering with a strong emphasis on usability, accessibility, and developer experience.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Diplôme d'études collégiales (DEC), Honours Science, Diplôme d'études collégiales (DEC), Honours Science at CEGEP - John Abbott CollegeBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Software Engineering (Honours), 3.73, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Software Engineering (Honours), 3.73 at McGill University
English, French, German
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Github Skills (19)
javascript10
facebook-messenger10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
messenger10
facebook-messages10
data-structure10
ocaml10
api10
blockchain10
data-structures10
facebook-chat10
nodejs10
zksnark9
zkp9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
Schmavery/facebook-chat-api
Jun 2015 - Dec 2020
Unofficial Facebook Chat API for Nodejs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 117 commits, 164 PRs in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Avery primarily contributed to the `facebook-chat-api` project by implementing and modifying core functionalities for interacting with the Facebook Messenger API. Their work focused on adding new features, such as `addUserToGroup`, `removeUserFromGroup`, and `changeThreadEmoji`, and also included modifications to existing functions like `sendMessage` and `getThreadInfo`. The user also addressed bugs and implemented other minor changes within the codebase.
apifacebook-chat-apinpm-packagechatchat-api
MinaProtocol/mina
Feb 2019 - Jul 2020
Mina is a cryptocurrency protocol with a constant size blockchain, improving scaling while maintaining decentralization and security.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:251 commits, 240 PRs, 452 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Avery made modifications to the transition frontier and its extensions, adding features related to the handling of data events in the blockchain. They worked on a variant to simplify the frontier diff and removed a destroy event. They also added support for counting snark work references. These changes indicate a focus on the core blockchain functionality and its data structures.
minaethereumsecurityblockchainocaml
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