Eric Vautour
Team Lead Director Of Engineering at Kinetic Social
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Vautour is a pragmatic engineering leader with 13 years of experience who currently serves as Team Lead / Director of Engineering at Kinetic Social, blending hands-on full‑stack development with people management and product-focused delivery. He is fluent in Ruby on Rails, JavaScript (AngularJS), MySQL and web ops (Nginx, Capistrano, GitLab), and has deep expertise integrating third‑party APIs including Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Snapchat. Eric built robust testing and deployment practices (Rails and Angular test suites, Capistrano/GitLab flows) and has led teams of up to fifteen engineers while liaising directly with clients and product owners. His background spans backend data work—Oracle, Hadoop/Hive, ZooKeeper and map‑reduce scripting—to frontend and infrastructure, demonstrating an ability to move between strategy, architecture and hands‑on implementation. Notably, his early consulting work honed strong time management and a focus on delivering correct, maintainable systems the first time.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of New Brunswick
Github Skills (22)
twitter-client6
twitter-api6
api5
facebook5
facebook-graph-api5
twitter5
graph4
ruby4
full-stack4
charts1
spreadsheet1
validation1
styles1
serialization1
xlsx1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
kineticsocial/fb_graph
Dec 2012 - May 2015
Contributions:56 commits, 11 pushes in 2 years 6 months
apiapi-wrapperfull-stackrubyfacebook
kineticsocial/quip-ruby
Aug 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:25 pushes in 2 months
api-clientapiclient-libraryruby-clientruby
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