Dany Marcoux
Senior Software Engineer at JobRad | Deutschland
Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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RockstarDany Marcoux is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of hands-on experience building and maintaining cloud-native and back-end systems across Europe, currently driving engineering at JobRad in Germany. He has led integrations and instrumentation efforts at SUSE for the Open Build Service, improved developer workflows with custom linters and monitoring, and contributed meaningful DevOps features to prominent open-source projects like nix-community/home-manager. Comfortable across Ruby on Rails, .NET, and infrastructure on AWS, Dany combines pragmatic problem-solving—fixing performance bottlenecks and legacy debt—with mentoring and team enablement. A polyglot and avid traveler who relocated to Germany after extensive travel, he’s actively learning German to better integrate and collaborate locally. Known for improving developer experience (e.g., editor integrations and reproducible dev environments), he prefers tackling hard technical debt and automating repeatable processes.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
German, Spanish, English, French
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Github Skills (27)
ruby-rails10
back-end-development10
nix10
configuration-management10
rails10
home-manager10
ruby10
backend10
testing9
git9
automations8
rest-api8
automation8
api-rest8
restful-api8
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
openSUSE/open-build-service
Apr 2018 - Jan 2023
Build and distribute Linux packages from sources in an automatic, consistent and reproducible way #obs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1805 reviews, 2099 commits, 1839 PRs in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Dany primarily contributed to the back-end aspects of the open-build-service repository, focusing on improving its functionality and maintainability. They addressed a gem parser bug that caused offenses by fixing Ruby code. They also transferred status messages and specs to their own controller and views, updated the packages and the dependencies, which indicates involvement with the core logic and structure of the OBS.
pkgbuildrpmarchlinuxkiwideb
nix-community/home-manager
May 2020 - Mar 2021
Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:3 commits, 5 PRs, 6 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Dany's contributions primarily center around enhancing the home-manager configuration management system. They implemented features like adding options for display controllers and primary settings for autorandr. The user also integrated tools like `delta` for improved git diff viewing and streamlined the configuration process for yt-dlp. Furthermore, the user enhanced the helix editor integration by adding a `defaultEditor` setting.
nix-dotfilesnixosmaintainerhome-managerdotfiles
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