Denis Carriere
Chief Technology Officer at Pinax
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDenis Carriere is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 12 years of experience building blockchain infrastructure, Web3 products, and geospatial systems from Ottawa, Canada. He currently leads engineering at Pinax and Pomelo Grants—bringing smart-contract development and decentralized grant funding (QF) into production while co-founding EOS Nation to support EOSIO infrastructure. Denis combines hands-on open-source development—modernizing popular JS libraries like simple-statistics, contributing bug fixes to Turf (a major geospatial engine), and authoring a widely used Python geocoder—with strategic product leadership. His background as a geospatial engineer and former Canadian Armed Forces combat engineer gives him an uncommon blend of operational discipline, field-mapping expertise, and resilient systems thinking. He’s skilled at bridging backend, frontend, and blockchain stacks to deliver practical, maintainable tooling for developers and organizations. Known for pragmatic refactors and attention to developer experience, he often focuses on long-term maintainability such as ES6/TypeScript migrations and robust test coverage.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Algonquin College
French, English
Github Skills (33)
url-routing10
apim10
es6-modules10
javascript10
python10
apidoc10
fetchr10
testing10
mathematics10
statistics10
fetcher10
typescript10
math10
geojson10
data-transformation10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
DenisCarriere/geocoder
Jan 2014 - Oct 2018
:earth_asia: Python Geocoder
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 releases, 781 commits, 110 PRs in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Denis was primarily responsible for the initial setup and development of the geocoder project, with a focus on the core architecture and functionality. They added different geocoding services, including Google and Bing. The commits reflect a focus on building the foundation of the project, including implementing methods for reverse geocoding.
pythongeospatiallgbtgeocodingearth
Turfjs/turf
Sep 2016 - Jun 2018
A modular geospatial engine written in JavaScript and TypeScript
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1783 commits, 700 PRs, 2074 pushes in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Denis's commits primarily focused on bug fixes and test updates within the project. Specifically, the user addressed issues related to point-to-line distance calculations, testing for a turf-dissolve module, the isobands module, TypeScript definitions, and test cases in the core turf module. They also implemented a fix for a reported issue in the polygon-tangents modules.
turfgeospatialjavascriptcomputational-geometrymodular
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