Gaetan Craig-riou
Senior Software Developer at Open Food Network Australia
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolGaetan Craig-riou is a Senior Software Developer based in Melbourne with eight years of production experience building full-stack web applications and services. He specializes in Ruby on Rails and SQL-backed systems, with strong advocacy for web standards (HTML/CSS/JS) and development best practices like TDD and DRY. Gaetan has driven end-to-end projects—from designing Postgres-backed POS systems and AWS deployments to shipping producer platforms and mobile apps—while improving CI pipelines and addressing technical debt. An active open source contributor, he has strengthened product import robustness in the Open Food Network by hardening CSV handling and preserving admin filters. Comfortable across languages (TCL, PHP, Python, C/C++, Perl) and databases (Postgres, MySQL, Oracle, Informix), he blends pragmatic engineering with a focus on reliability and maintainability. Colleagues describe him as a hands-on developer who pairs deep backend expertise with practical operational experience.
7 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
master, Electronique, Informatique, master, Electronique, Informatique at ISEN Insitut Supérieur d'Electronique et du Numérique
French, English
Github Skills (13)
ruby-rails10
error-handling10
csv10
rails10
back-end-development10
ruby10
rspec9
f7
harvest7
arm7
npr5
nco5
np5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
openfoodfoundation/openfoodnetwork
Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
Connect suppliers, distributors and consumers to trade local produce.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 releases, 1235 reviews, 20 commits in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Gaetan primarily focused on enhancing the product import functionality, addressing malformed CSV data and improving error handling within the `product_importer` model. Their contributions include refactoring the code to better handle `CSV::MalformedCSVError` exceptions and fixing typos in the codebase. The user also made changes to the admin product page, adding filter parameters to links and implementing filter preservation when updating products.
farmersdistributorsrailsnonprofitfood
rioug/openfoodnetwork
May 2020 - Apr 2025
Connect suppliers, distributors and consumers to trade local produce
Contributions:2 reviews, 1 PR, 536 pushes in 4 years 10 months
distributorssupplierstradeconsumers
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