Devon Powell
Principal Software Developer at D2L
Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolDevon Powell is a Principal Software Developer with 11 years of experience building high-performance, cross-platform systems and distributed, asynchronous architectures for enterprise and consumer products. Currently at D2L in educational technology, he combines deep C/C++ expertise with modern cloud (Serverless/AWS) and full-stack work in C# and JavaScript to deliver scalable, compliant solutions. His background spans security-grade product delivery at McAfee—designing message-bus APIs and installers for tens of millions of clients—to technical art and shader work in game studios, giving him rare fluency across low-level optimization and 3D mathematics. A pragmatic leader and mentor, he champions TDD, refactoring, and automation to modernize legacy systems and improve long-term performance. Known for shipping practical proprietary storage formats and installer platforms, he reliably balances architectural oversight with hands-on implementation. Based in Ontario, Canada, he remains deeply curious and continually sharpens both technical and artistic tooling skills.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at Wilfrid Laurier UniversityOntario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD) Visual Arts, Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD) Visual Arts at Cawthra Park Secondary School
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Github Skills (188)
lit-element10
e2e-testing10
dependabot10
pnpm10
testing10
azure-functions10
bullet10
gcc10
automation10
6800010
custom-element10
hash-functions10
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
devpow112/docker-base-ubuntu
Sep 2020 - Mar 2025
:whale: Ubuntu docker container for use as base for other containers
Contributions:47 releases, 536 reviews, 1069 PRs in 4 years 7 months
containersriscv64dependabots390xdocker-image
WNProject/DockerClangFormat
Oct 2020 - Mar 2025
:whale: Docker container containing all needed tools to run Clang Format
Contributions:108 reviews, 169 PRs, 183 pushes in 4 years 6 months
dependabotclangclang-formatlinuxdocker
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