Jacob Gagné
Senior Software Developer at Small Door
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Gagné is a Senior Software Developer based in Montreal with 11 years of hands-on experience building full-stack systems in Scala, JavaScript, Python, C++ and Java. He has shipped production services at Shopify and now leads development at Small Door, progressing from developer to senior within a year. His background spans startups to enterprise, including co-founding a mobile app company and optimizing latency-sensitive backend and financial-logic code. Comfortable across microservices, React frontends, Akka clustering and automated testing, he pairs pragmatic engineering with strong systems thinking. Currently completing a Bachelor of Software Engineering at Concordia, he combines formal training with deep practical experience—often contributing to both backend performance and frontend UX improvements.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
DEC Computer Science, DEC Computer Science at CEGEP - John Abbott CollegeBachelor’s Degree Software Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Software Engineering at Concordia University
English, French
Github Skills (38)
scs5
toast5
game-theory5
uci5
javascript4
assign4
java4
android-library4
kotlin4
input-validation4
custom-properties4
targets3
chess-engine3
science3
whenever3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
SCS-Concordia/Website
Dec 2016 - Jan 2019
Codebase for the new Software Engineering and Computer Science Society (SCS) website.
Contributions:1 release, 13 PRs, 18 pushes in 2 years 1 month
sciencecomputer-science-societycomputer-scienceengineeringcodebase
jacobrs/jacobrs.github.io
Jan 2016 - Dec 2018
Contributions:21 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 10 months
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