Jacques Rascagneres
App Services Engineering Lead at Couchbase
Northwich, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJacques Rascagneres is an App Services Engineering Lead with 13 years of software experience, currently driving design and delivery of Couchbase’s mobile-focused cloud product, App Services, across AWS, GCP and Azure. He combines hands-on Go backend development on Sync Gateway with leadership—mentoring engineers, setting timelines, and enforcing rigorous design and code review practices to ship major releases that expanded customer adoption. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he routinely reduces technical debt (e.g., consolidating logging, removing deprecated code, and hardening attachment handling) and pairs feature work with comprehensive unit tests. Outside of Couchbase he co-founded The Space Devs and contributes open launch data, reflecting a genuine interest in spaceflight that informs his engineering curiosity.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 1st, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 1st at University of York
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Github Skills (16)
file-handling10
unit-testing10
go10
backend10
filehandle10
attachment10
rest-api9
json6
java6
listview6
admob6
android6
adapter6
database6
google-play-services6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
couchbase/sync_gateway
Jan 2019 - Aug 2022
Manages access and synchronization between Couchbase Lite and Couchbase Server
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:444 reviews, 549 commits, 415 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Jacques primarily contributed to the Couchbase Sync Gateway project by addressing code-related issues and implementing improvements. Their work included removing deprecated code, consolidating logging, setting attachment size limits, and addressing incorrect and incomplete processing of data. The user also created unit tests for both invalid attachment and complex attachment scenarios, focusing on aspects like attachment handling, edge cases, and integration with the server's functionality.
golangsync-gatewaycouchbase-mobilecouchbase-litesynchronization
JRascagneres/Go4LiftoffDiscord
Nov 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:20 commits, 18 pushes, 5 branches in 7 months
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