Marc Cataford
Engineering Manager at Fellow - AI Meeting Assistant
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJean-marc Skopek is a founder and seasoned software professional with 11 years of experience building platform and education-focused products from Vancouver. He thrives in small autonomous teams tackling problems a few years ahead of their time, blending hands-on engineering with strategic leadership demonstrated at Top Hat Monocle and Sokanu. His work centers on the future of education and employment, and he brings practical infrastructure and front-end chops—evident from open-source contributions like a React rewrite of an international telephone input component that improved performance and modularity. As founder of Empathy Works he pairs product intuition with technical execution, often optimizing CI/CD and dependency cleanup behind the scenes. Colleagues describe him as someone who prefers meaningful, long-term impact over short-term wins, combining curiosity about systems with a grounded operational sensibility.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer’s Degree Computer engineering, Engineer’s Degree Computer engineering at McGill University
French, English
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Github Skills (15)
javascript10
telecom10
react-components10
component-kit10
tel10
react-component10
react10
telephony10
front-end-development9
css9
scs8
sc8
githubaction-workflow7
github-ci7
python6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
patw0929/react-intl-tel-input
Feb 2020 - Sep 2021
Rewrite International Telephone Input in React.js. (Looking for maintainers, and PRs & contributors are also welcomed!)
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:18 reviews, 31 commits, 69 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Marc primarily contributed to refactoring and improving the React.js-based international telephone input component. Their work involved extracting and modularizing UI elements like the flag box, creating styled components, and cleaning up code related to country list rendering and dropdown behavior. They also focused on size and performance improvements, optimizing CI/CD processes, and removing dependencies on node-sass.
reactinternational-telephonetelephonephonenumberflags
tophat/new-project-kit
Mar 2019 - Aug 2021
Some odds and ends to help you get started with new Top Hat Open Source repos quickly
Contributions:1 review, 7 commits, 12 PRs in 2 years 4 months
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