Cedric Dugas
Principal Software Developer at AppDirect
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolCedric Dugas is a Principal Software Developer based in Montreal with 25 years of engineering experience and over 15 years building product-focused teams and platforms. He combines deep front-end expertise—especially in JavaScript/TypeScript and React—with platform thinking, leading UI libraries, personalization services, and a storefront builder used across large-scale e-commerce products. At AppDirect he scaled UI practices across 250 distributed engineers, driving guild-level strategy while remaining a hands-on contributor to tooling and validation logic (notably enhancements to the jQuery Validation Engine). Cedric pairs product-minded leadership with execution experience in white-label architectures, tag/sales-tracking systems and full-stack services in Kubernetes environments. He also brings formal training in engineering leadership and IT management, enabling him to translate executive vision into pragmatic roadmaps and repeatable delivery.
25 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Thomas Edison State UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Information Technology Management, Master of Science - MS, Information Technology Management at WGU WashingtonCertificate, Engineering Leadership, Certificate, Engineering Leadership at Cornell UniversityCollege Diploma, Computer Multimedia Integration, College Diploma, Computer Multimedia Integration at Cégep Édouard-Montpetit
French, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (13)
html10
javascript10
jquery10
form-validation10
css8
caching6
asynchronous6
activerecord6
ckeditor6
database6
symfony6
cordova6
image6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
posabsolute/jQuery-Validation-Engine
Jan 2001 - Jul 2019
jQuery form validation plugin
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:387 commits, 21 PRs, 21 pushes in 18 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Cedric primarily contributed to the `jquery-validation-engine` repository by implementing new features related to form validation, especially with the "groupRequired" functionality, which ensures that at least one field within a group is filled. The commits demonstrate the addition of new validation rules and support for different languages and updated the documentation. The changes involved modifying both the JavaScript core library and the HTML demo files, indicating a focus on both front-end and underlying validation logic.
jqueryvalidationjavascriptjquery-formvalidation-plugin
posabsolute/saq-analysis
Jun 2012 - Jul 2012
Contributions:18 commits in 22 days
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