Érik Desjardins
Senior Backend Engineer at Zapper
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolÉrik Desjardins is a Senior Backend Engineer from Montreal with 10+ years building scalable web platforms, leading engineering teams, and founding startups—including a CTO role at Narcity Media and recent senior backend positions at Hookdeck and Zapper. He specializes in Node.js and TypeScript (using Node since v0.10), Linux systems and networking, Docker Compose, and has hands-on experience in kernel development and smart contracts. Comfortable bridging engineering and product, he has a track record of creating CMSes, hiring and mentoring engineers, and shipping systems for SMBs as a freelancer and founder. Bilingual in French and English, he’s an active open-source-minded developer and investor in Web3 and Bitcoin, with a quirky attention to performance (121 WPM) and a long-standing devotion to VIM and low-level tooling.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Génie, Programmation logiciel, Génie, Programmation logiciel at École de technologie supérieureDEC, Informatique de gestion, DEC, Informatique de gestion at Collège Lionel-Groulx
French, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (93)
nodejs10
javascript9
linux9
webapp9
js9
windows9
redux9
event-calendar9
3ds9
rocket9
preact9
macos9
devkitpro8
nintendo8
react8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
rykdesjardins/js-calendar
Jun 2017 - Aug 2018
The lightest Javascript calendar out there, without any dependency.
Contributions:66 commits, 1 PR, 58 pushes in 1 year 2 months
lightestcalendarjavascript-calendarjavascriptevent-calendar
rykdesjardins/litemail
Dec 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:52 commits, 38 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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