Eric Hogue
Staff Security Software Developer at Cars Commerce
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolEric Hogue is a Staff Security Software Developer in Montreal with 13 years of professional experience and two decades of hands-on programming since 2001. He blends deep backend expertise in PHP, Node.js, and TypeScript with a security-first mindset, leading platform and integration efforts while improving application hardening and monitoring. As a technical lead he has designed promotion engines, cross-company integrations, and incident response practices, and at open-source level contributed security-focused work such as improvements to a php.ini scanner and backend fixes for Joind.in. An avid learner of offensive security, he competes in CTFs and ranks highly on platforms like RingZer0 and TryHackMe—skills he uses to teach teams practical attack-based defenses. Colleagues rely on him for clean, test-driven, object-oriented code and pragmatic architectural decisions that balance maintainability and security.
14 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
DEC IT; Computer Science, DEC IT; Computer Science at Cégep André Laurendeau
English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (24)
web-application10
apidoc10
configuration-management10
phpunit10
php10
api10
webapp10
configuration-file10
configurations10
web-development10
twig10
relational-databases10
mysql9
scanner9
security9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
joindin/joindin-web2
Mar 2013 - Jun 2013
HTTP Frontend For the Joind.in API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 1 comment in 2 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily focused on back-end development within the Joind.in web application. Their contributions involved modifying the application to read the API URL from a configuration file and updating the event model to generate and store slugs. They also implemented changes to the messages displayed to users regarding event attendance and made updates to the application's models, including database interaction. The user further contributed to modifying existing controller and view files.
frontend
psecio/iniscan
Oct 2013 - Nov 2013
A php.ini scanner for best security practices
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 15 days
Contributions summary:Eric contributed to the security of the php.ini scanning tool. Their work included trimming ini file names before parsing, ensuring correct type casting for configuration values, and refactoring tests using data providers for improved efficiency. They also implemented a feature to filter rules based on a configurable threshold, allowing users to focus on security issues of a certain severity.
securityscannerphpconfigurationini
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