Joel Gallant
Senior Software Engineer at DRW
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Summary
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RockstarJoel Gallant is a senior software engineer based in Calgary with 13 years of experience building high-availability web platforms, frontend architectures, and real-time APIs. He has driven critical systems at Cruise—rebuilding matchmaking for Remote Advisors, migrating to Spanner, and architecting a modular frontend for faster iteration and A/B testing—and now contributes at DRW. Comfortable across the stack, Joel combines production-grade backend work in Go and gRPC with complex React/WebGL frontends and video pipelines, and has shipped embedded computer vision and real-time UAV tracking earlier in his career. He’s a pragmatic polyglot and FOSS enthusiast who ramps up quickly, mentors teams, and focuses on high-leverage problems that improve operational workflows. Notably, he blends deep technical execution with cross-functional collaboration, regularly partnering with UX, ops, and leadership to deliver high-impact projects.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
English, French
Github Skills (200)
webots10
json-schema10
c1110
in-app-purchase10
cpp10
receipt-validation10
browser10
computer-vision10
obsolete10
json10
schema-validation10
nested-objects10
toml10
nodejs10
mongodb10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
launchcodedev/router
Dec 2018 - Mar 2021
A wrapper for Koa route actions w/ schemas, middleware and more
Contributions:1 review, 278 commits, 3 PRs in 2 years 3 months
koa-routerschema-validationkoarouteschemas
launchcodedev/fetch
Oct 2019 - Dec 2020
Tiny wrapper for DOM fetch with reuse-ability in mind
Contributions:3 reviews, 36 commits, 4 pushes in 1 year 2 months
prefetchtinyjavascriptabilityreuse
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