Georges-antoine Assi
Senior DevEx Engineer at PostHog
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolGeorges-Antoine Assi is a Senior DevEx Engineer with 11 years of full-stack and growth-focused engineering experience, now working at PostHog from Ottawa. He blends product-minded growth engineering—having led Fellow.app’s Growth team and driven analytics, experiments, and North Star metrics—with hands-on development across front-end and back-end systems. An active open-source contributor, he maintains and expands flow-typed library definitions and improves developer tooling for JavaScript ecosystems. Comfortable in small teams, he has repeatedly shipped pragmatic improvements from API performance and UI polish to resilient widget integrations in Dockerized dashboards. Colleagues know him as a curious, creative problem-solver who pairs technical craft with measurable product impact.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer Engineering at University of OttawaHigh School, Mathematics and Computer Science, High School, Mathematics and Computer Science at École Secondaire Catholique La Citadelle
French, English
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Github Skills (27)
javascript10
type-check10
nextjs10
type-definition10
typechecker10
backbonejs10
homescreen10
backbone10
react10
frontpage10
nodejs9
documentation9
docker8
apidoc8
api8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
flow-typed/flow-typed
May 2017 - Dec 2022
A central repository for Flow library definitions
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Technical Writer
Back-end Developer & Technical WriterContributions:18 releases, 174 reviews, 157 commits in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Georges-antoine contributed to the project by adding and modifying definitions for third-party JavaScript libraries. This work involved adding type definitions, making changes to existing definitions, and creating tests for these definitions. The focus was on providing accurate and comprehensive type information for libraries like Backbone, PapaParse.js, and others. They also focused on improvements for existing project documentation.
libdefsflowtypedefinitionscli
gethomepage/homepage
Apr 2023 - Feb 2025
A highly customizable homepage (or startpage / application dashboard) with Docker and service API integrations.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 8 PRs, 14 comments in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Georges-antoine primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and functionality of the homepage application. They implemented features to hide widgets on failure, replaced fields in the Nextcloud widget, and improved the Glances widget, making it more clickable and preventing unnecessary API calls. Furthermore, the user added a Calibre web widget, including its proxy handling and addressing edge cases within its component. The user also enhanced the application by applying layout settings to bookmarks.
apireacthighly-customizabledockercustomizable
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