Jérôme Gravel-niquet
Co-Founder at Fly.io
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolJérôme Gravel-niquet is a seasoned web engineer and entrepreneur with 16+ years building user-focused web applications and co-founding Fly.io. He blends product instincts, interface and information-architecture expertise, and hands-on full‑stack development—from front-end UX refinements to back-end systems and CLI tooling. Jérôme has contributed performance-critical open-source work (notably a refactored Backbone localStorage adapter) and security-sensitive improvements to projects like rustls, reflecting both usability and systems-level strengths. His career spans solo entrepreneurship, startup engineering roles, and platform building, giving him an uncommon mix of design sensibility and operational experience. Based in Montreal, he’s driven by shipping polished, fast user experiences and aims to operate a linked network of web applications. An under-the-radar skill: he frequently optimizes existing codebases for speed and maintainability rather than only adding new features.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (65)
web-application10
go-language10
testing10
refactor10
security10
mtls10
backbonejs10
refactoring10
web-development10
backbone10
ruby-on-rails10
firecracker10
javascript10
api10
sdk10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
jeromegn/DocumentUp
Jan 2012 - Jun 2015
Pretty documentation generator for Github projects with proper Readme.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:247 commits, 3 PRs, 25 pushes in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Jérôme primarily worked on improving the documentation generation process. They added Javascript files for client-side document rendering and implemented features for custom configurations. They also made changes to the backend, including storing the full repository name and handling custom domain configurations by modifying routes and controllers. Further contributions included updating the build and deployment process by adding tools like New Relic and Raygun, as well as integrating SVG icons for build status.
documentation-generatorapi-documentationmarkdownstatic-site-generator
jeromegn/Backbone.localStorage
Oct 2010 - Jul 2016
A localStorage adapter for Backbone.js
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:134 commits, 3 PRs, 8 pushes in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Jérôme's primary contribution was refactoring the `backbone.localstorage.js` file, which appears to be the core component of this repository, implementing a local storage adapter for Backbone.js. The refactoring included code improvements and speed optimizations, leading to significant performance gains. They also fixed a bug related to the handling of IDs within the local storage mechanism, and updated the code to be minified.
localstorage-adapterbackbonejavascriptadapterlocalstorage
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