Grégory Horion
Partner at NovaTechnica
Walnut Creek, California, United States
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Top SchoolGrégory Horion is a seasoned software engineer and entrepreneur with 14 years of experience building scalable Ruby-based systems and developer tooling from the Bay Area. As co-founder of Aptly and DATALEVERAGE and a partner at Novatechnica, he blends product intuition with hands-on engineering to ship customer-focused SaaS and AI products. He has driven developer productivity initiatives at companies like Bigcommerce and RealPage—introducing Docker-based environments and architecting high-availability services—while championing clean architecture, event sourcing and microservices. An active open-source contributor, his improvements to the popular hashie library and work on the Hutch RabbitMQ consumer reflect a focus on robust error handling and flexible APIs. Based in Walnut Creek, he pairs strong technical leadership with a habit of giving back to the community and mentoring teams.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Civil Engineering, Civil Engineering at Université catholique de Louvainweb developer, web developer at Ifosup CollegeHigh School mathematics sciences greek, High School mathematics sciences greek at Lycée Martin V, (louvain-la-neuve, belgium)
English, French
Stackoverflow
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ruby
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rspec
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hash
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ssh
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javascript
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Github Skills (23)
unit-testing10
testing10
rspec10
message-queue10
ruby10
rabbitmq10
error-handling10
javascript9
object-oriented-programming9
exception-handling9
nodejs9
ssh9
hash9
yaml8
grouping6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
hashie/hashie
Jun 2014 - Feb 2015
Hashie is a collection of classes and mixins that make Ruby hashes more powerful.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 7 months
Contributions summary:Grégory primarily contributed to the Hashie library by adding and modifying core functionalities related to hash manipulation. Their work included implementing the `update_attributes!` method for Dash and Trash classes, enhancing coercion features for enumerables and collections, and fixing issues related to IndifferentAccess. They also introduced a YAML file support for Mash#load and improved the error handling and exception messages within the library. The changes are focused on improving the library's usability and flexibility.
mixinshashesrubyhash-extensions
ruby-amqp/hutch
Jul 2014 - Jul 2014
A system for processing messages from RabbitMQ.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 7 days
Contributions summary:Grégory primarily focused on modifying the core logic of the message processing system within the `hutch` repository, which is related to RabbitMQ. Their contributions include implementing error handling mechanisms using exceptions, refactoring to use a throw/catch approach, and providing access to broker and delivery information within the consumer. These changes improved the system's flexibility and control over message handling workflows. Additional updates included adjustments to the message object, increasing accessibility.
rabbitmq
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