Ike Saunders
Full-stack Developer at Our World in Data
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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RockstarIke Saunders is a full-stack developer with 10 years of experience building responsive JavaScript applications and back-end systems, currently contributing to Our World in Data from Montreal. He combines front-end expertise in React and Angular with server-side work in Node.js/Express and Laravel, and practical database experience with MySQL. At Our World in Data he has focused on devops and backend reliability for a well-known data-visualization platform, improving staging environments, deployment scripts, and data sanitization. His background spans agency and in-house roles (ALDO, Element AI) where he wore many hats—client-facing work, design, and production support—bringing a pragmatic, product-minded approach. Known for a fast learning curve and creative problem solving, he enjoys architecting practical solutions that bridge developer workflows and user-facing features. Colleagues describe him as a “Swiss-army” engineer who thrives on both shipping polished UIs and hardening deployment pipelines.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
English, French
Github Skills (15)
sh10
database-management10
script10
shell10
devops10
scripting10
bash9
aws8
typescript-types7
typescript7
typescripts7
react6
data-visualisation5
data-visualization5
data-visualizations5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
owid/owid-grapher
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
A platform for creating interactive data visualizations
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:581 reviews, 478 commits, 578 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Ike's contributions primarily revolved around setting up and maintaining the development and deployment environment for the `owid/owid-grapher` project. They implemented scripts for staging environment setup, added and configured a new staging environment, and ensured that the database imports were sanitized. Additionally, they contributed to updating and fixing the refresh scripts for the staging environment, ensuring its functionality. The user also worked on deploying to Netlify and addressed issues related to image uploads.
graph-analysisreactmemgraphgraphsvisualizations
ikesau/ikesau.github.io
Jul 2019 - Mar 2025
Contributions:4 PRs, 375 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 9 months
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