David Kord
Senior Software Developer at Ubisoft
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolDavid Kord is a senior software developer with 15 years of cross-platform experience building games, tooling, and cloud-native infrastructure from Montreal. He has shipped SDKs and editor tools at Unity, optimized CI/CD and Helm deployments, and improved backend concurrency and performance in projects like ChartMuseum and pip-tools. A hands-on developer comfortable across front-end (Angular/Hugo), backend Go/Python, and DevOps (containers, k8s, helmfile), he also contributes to notable open-source projects that bridge UX and deployment concerns. Known for pragmatic optimizations—such as build-time resource fetching and double-render templating for env support—he brings a systems-minded approach to developer ergonomics and scalable release workflows.
16 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Associate’s Degree Informatique, Associate’s Degree Informatique at IUT de Paris - Rives de SeineEngineer's Degree Informatique, Engineer's Degree Informatique at EPITA: Ecole d'Ingénieurs en Informatique
English, French, Persian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (45)
mermaid10
kubernetes10
hugo10
javascript10
pip-tools10
reveal-js10
pytest10
python10
leaflet10
charts10
testing10
css10
packaging10
cicd10
charting10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
helm/chartmuseum
Nov 2017 - Mar 2021
helm chart repository server
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 26 commits in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:David primarily focused on enhancing the ChartMuseum backend, specifically addressing concurrency issues and optimizing index regeneration. Their work involved channel-based flow control to manage download errors and context management for canceling goroutines. The user also refactored the index regeneration process to improve performance by optimizing network requests and separating fetch and diff calculations. Furthermore, the user contributed to serving an empty index when there were no charts and implementing metrics for the API.
helmchartskuberneteschartmuseum
jazzband/pip-tools
Oct 2015 - Jan 2018
A set of tools to keep your pinned Python dependencies fresh.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 61 commits, 65 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:David primarily focused on improving the `pip-tools` package by addressing bugs and enhancing its interaction with pip. They implemented features to honor pip's configuration files and added tests for this functionality. The user also refactored the code to use pip's session management, improving the tool's internal workings. Furthermore, they worked on resolving issues related to dependency resolution within the project.
pythonpackagingpippip-toolspip-compile
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