David Leger
Design Engineer at GC AI
Rothesay, New Brunswick, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Leger is a frontend-focused design engineer based in Halifax with 11 years of experience building polished, testable web experiences and design systems. He’s rearchitected frontends for maintainability and migrated large codebases to TypeScript while also contributing backend microservices in Node and Go, showing true full-stack fluency. As a core maintainer of component libraries at Manifold and Kard, he pairs UX sensibility with engineering rigor to deliver consistent, themeable UI systems powered by CSS variables and web components. At Kard he identified >$20k/month in recoverable revenue and established incident management processes, blending product thinking with operational impact. He’s helped propagate growth engineering practices like A/B testing at Snyk and driven organizational changes that measurably increased engineering bandwidth. Comfortable mentoring and hiring, he excels at turning design-led ideas into scalable, production-ready products.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Engineering Software Engineering, Engineering Software Engineering at University of New Brunswick
French, English
Github Skills (146)
ui-components10
shadcn-ui10
radix10
laravel10
tanstack10
react-aria10
radix-ui10
design-tokens10
tailwindcss10
w3c10
react-component-library10
css10
vite10
nextjs10
tailwind10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
davidleger95/davejs
Oct 2019 - Oct 2024
Contributions:11 PRs, 275 pushes, 7 branches in 5 years
davidleger95/portfolio
Jun 2015 - Nov 2019
Contributions:16 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 5 months
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