Gilles Leblanc
Senior Software Developer at Coveo
Longueuil, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolGilles Leblanc is a pragmatic Senior Software Developer with 14 years of experience building full-stack solutions across front-end frameworks (Angular, React) and back-end stacks (C#, .NET, Python/FastAPI), currently contributing at Coveo. He brings cloud production experience on GCP and AWS, a track record of launching game services and login flows at Phoenix Labs, and leadership experience running teams and client-facing delivery at HalfSerious. Gilles has repeatedly improved legacy systems—lifting an OCR success rate for Hydro-Québec and modernizing ASP.NET apps at the Canadian Space Agency—balancing reliability with pragmatic refactors. A former consultant and small-business owner, he’s comfortable steering architecture, deployments, and on-call production work across startups, public sector and games. Active in open source, he has improved the Ruby code-smell tool reek by enhancing tests, refactoring deprecated APIs and improving user-facing output—evidence of a focus on maintainability and developer experience.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Baccalauréat Informatique et génie logiciel, Baccalauréat Informatique et génie logiciel at UQAM | Université du Québec à Montréal
English, French
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Github Skills (23)
static-analysis10
testing10
eslint10
ruby10
lint10
linter10
linting10
data-quality9
software-quality9
quality-assurance9
moq9
rust9
syntax9
cli8
command-line-interface8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
troessner/reek
Aug 2013 - Aug 2014
Code smell detector for Ruby
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:14 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Gilles primarily contributed to improving the quality and maintainability of the `reek` code smell detector. Their work involved refactoring existing code by replacing deprecated methods, updating the testing infrastructure, and adding new features to improve output readability and functionality, such as adding total warning counts and colorized output. These changes suggest a focus on enhancing the tool's reliability and user experience.
linterssmell-warningsrubydetectorparsing
gilles-leblanc/genesis
Feb 2016 - Mar 2018
Contributions:1 PR, 88 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years
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