Jean-francois Girard
President at Les Conseillers BCA Consultants Inc
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJean-francois Girard is President of Les Conseillers BCA Consultants Inc. with over 25 years in building construction and 13 years in senior leadership, rising from draftsman to president within the same Montreal-based firm. He specializes in steel structures, design-build, wood-frame construction and mobile structures, blending hands-on drafting expertise with project and executive management. Beyond firm leadership, he contributes technically to open-source front-end projects—optimizing event handling and canvas interactions in the popular Leaflet mapping library—showing a practical aptitude for performance-focused code. Known for turning complex structural requirements into buildable solutions, he combines architectural technology training with a pragmatic, construction-first mindset.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
DEC Architectural Technology, DEC Architectural Technology at Vanier CollegeRosemere
Github Skills (5)
maps10
javascript10
event-handling10
performance-optimization10
leaflet10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Leaflet/Leaflet
Nov 2012 - Nov 2012
🍃 JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps 🇺🇦
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 8 days
Contributions summary:Jean-francois primarily focused on improving the event handling and performance of the Leaflet library. Their contributions involved optimizing event listeners by storing them in a hash for faster lookup and removal. Furthermore, the user addressed a bug in the Canvas path click event handling and improved the code convention. The user's commits demonstrate a focus on enhancing the core functionality and efficiency of the library's event management system.
leafletjavascript-libraryjavascriptmapmobile-friendly
sylvainallard/macwidgets
Nov 2015 - Feb 2025
Contributions:23 pushes, 8 branches in 9 years 5 months
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