Francis Poirier
Team Lead at Pure Cobalt
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolFrancis Poirier is a Montreal-based software leader with over a decade of hands-on development and 15 years in the industry, currently serving as Team Lead at Pure Cobalt where he directs complex web, eCommerce and mobile projects and champions Agile delivery. He combines full-stack fluency—from Meteor, Node and MongoDB backends to React, Ionic and Cordova mobile UIs—with proven experience migrating large sites (Transat) and delivering bespoke tooling like apps that generate Excel and PowerPoint for Bombardier. A habitual open-source contributor, Francis has improved UX and cross-platform behavior in Meteor/Ionic components and hardened account workflows in Meteor user accounts, showing attention to both front-end polish and core authentication flows. As a co‑founder of two digital ventures, he brings entrepreneurial instincts and product-focused engineering to team leadership and technical strategy.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's Degree, Information technology, Engineer's Degree, Information technology at Université du Québec - Ecole de Technologie supérieureDEC, Multimedia, DEC, Multimedia at Maisonneuve College
English, French
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Github Skills (10)
ionice10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ionic10
meteor10
html9
css9
router8
routers8
mobile-development8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
meteoric/meteor-ionic
Feb 2015 - Jul 2015
Ionic components for Meteor. No Angular!
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 12 PRs, 5 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Francis primarily focused on enhancing the UI components within the `meteor-ionic` repository. They implemented custom class additions to various components, including lists, modals, and items, enabling greater styling flexibility. Furthermore, they added functionality to the tab component to adjust for Android platform, ensuring proper application layout. Their contributions demonstrate a focus on improving the user experience and adapting the application to specific platforms.
angularionicmeteor
meteor-useraccounts/core
May 2014 - Dec 2014
Meteor sign up and sign in templates' core functionalities
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 2 PRs, 1 comment in 7 months
Contributions summary:Francis primarily contributed to the core functionalities of the Meteor Accounts Templates, modifying server and client-side logic. Their work included adding features like account enrollment, implementing options for layout templates, and incorporating an `onSubmitHook`. They also addressed a bug related to the forgot password form and ensured pre-validation. Additionally, the user fixed issues around default keys related to the display names and placeholders.
meteor
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