Boris Bera
Senior 2 Software Developer at Coveo
Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolBoris Bera is a Senior 2 Full Stack Software Developer based in Sherbrooke, Quebec, with 11 years of experience building and maintaining frontend, backend, DevOps, and security-focused systems. He thrives on solving challenging problems and creating tooling that helps teams work more effectively, often digging into complex systems to understand and improve them. At Coveo and prior roles he has led migrations, built microservices, CI/CD pipelines, and Linux infrastructure while unifying legacy and modern stacks for seamless user experiences. An active open-source contributor, Boris has improved developer portals like Backstage and added performance-focused checks to Elixir's credo, showing attention to both UX and code quality. His pragmatic curiosity—illustrated by building a design-time database backed by Git and blending operational work with product-facing development—drives continuous growth and reliable delivery.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's Degree, Computer Information Systems, Associate's Degree, Computer Information Systems at Champlain regional college LennoxvilleBachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at Université de Sherbrooke
English, French
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Github Skills (31)
javascript10
elixir10
typescript10
backstage10
code-analysis10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
linter10
portal10
typescripts10
react10
jes9
back-end-development9
static-analysis9
command-line-interface9
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
rrrene/credo
Oct 2017 - May 2018
A static code analysis tool for the Elixir language with a focus on code consistency and teaching.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:15 commits, 3 PRs, 5 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Boris primarily contributed to the `credo` project by implementing and improving code checks and related tests for the Elixir language. Their work focused on identifying and addressing potential performance issues related to empty list/enum checks within Elixir code. They also added documentation and made adjustments to the project's configuration to include and test the newly implemented checks. Furthermore, the user developed and modified the CLI interface, specifically adding and documenting the `--min-priority` switch.
linterteachingelixirstatic-code-analysiselixir-language
backstage/backstage
Oct 2022 - Oct 2022
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 6 commits, 9 PRs in 4 days
Contributions summary:Boris primarily contributed to the Backstage developer portal, focusing on both backend and frontend improvements. Their work involved refining the proxy backend by implementing logging enhancements for the `http-proxy-middleware`. Additionally, they addressed frontend aspects by ensuring the `<Table />` component properly handles header styles and corrected a testing import. Finally, the user added and tested features for the `<StructuredMetadataTable>` component.
portalsinfrastructureopen-platformdxbackstage
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