Gil Desmarais
Senior Fullstack Engineer at Caspar Health
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolGil Desmarais is a Senior Fullstack Engineer based in Berlin with over a decade of experience turning business problems into pragmatic software solutions. He is primarily a Ruby/Rails specialist but has recently expanded into TypeScript and Rust, reflecting a curiosity for performant, type-safe tooling. Gil has shipped full-stack features across startups and product teams—from backend systems at Moviepilot to leading engineering work at Durch die Stadt and now Caspar Health—bridging product needs and technical execution. Known for a data-informed approach ("No data? No decision!"), he combines pragmatic engineering with a focus on measurable outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) at Jade University of Applied Sciences
English, German, Spanish
Github Skills (159)
atom-feed10
ruby10
website-design10
lazyload10
sounds10
rss10
rss-reader10
get-started10
feed10
css-selectors10
html10
music10
json10
puppeteer10
scrape10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
html2rss/html2rss
May 2018 - Dec 2022
📰 Build RSS 2.0 feeds from websites (and JSON APIs) automatically or with a few CSS selectors.
Contributions:12 releases, 7 reviews, 198 commits in 4 years 7 months
rssrss-bridgeyahoo-pipesrss-readerscraping
html2rss/generator
Aug 2022 - Oct 2024
🧙🏽♂️ Generates html2rss configs on the CLI.
Contributions:11 PRs, 9 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 3 months
generatorhtml2rssrssrss-generator
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