Jean-philippe Doyle
Senior Software Developer at Wealthsimple
Quebec, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolJean-philippe Doyle is a senior software developer with 16 years of hands-on experience building and scaling Ruby on Rails products, currently shaping platform and developer experience at Wealthsimple in Quebec. He co-founded and led product and engineering efforts at Didacte, growing a Rails/Ember LMS from consultancy roots to a successful acquisition by Workleap, and later drove complex migrations, SOC 2 certification, and Azure/Terraform infrastructure work. At Workleap he introduced OpenTelemetry to the first Ruby project there and delivered AI-powered features, telemetry-driven SLOs, and SCORM support for the LMS, demonstrating a blend of engineering, product, and operational focus. An active open-source contributor, he improved core arithmetic, formatting, and compatibility in the popular RubyMoney/money library—showing attention to correctness and long-term maintainability. Known for mentoring teams and defining SDLC practices, he pairs startup founder grit with enterprise readiness and cross-team collaboration. He brings a practical systems mindset plus uncommon experience moving projects from bootstrapped product to acquisition while maintaining deep Ruby expertise.
16 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Informatique Administration, Informatique Administration at Université LavalDEC Informatique de gestion, DEC Informatique de gestion at Collège Garneau
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Github Skills (13)
mathematics10
monetary10
text-formatting10
ruby10
testing9
ecommerce6
html6
version-control6
spree6
taxonomy6
rvm6
svn6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
RubyMoney/money
Nov 2015 - Dec 2015
A Ruby Library for dealing with money and currency conversion.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 8 PRs, 12 comments in 18 days
Contributions summary:Jean-philippe contributed to the RubyMoney library, focusing on core arithmetic and formatting functionality. They addressed issues related to compatibility with newer Ruby versions, specifically modifying code to handle `TypeError` exceptions and ensuring methods were defined as public using `class_eval`. Additionally, the user streamlined formatting methods and updated comparison operators. They also included a focus filter in specs.
rubymoneyexchange-rate
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