Joel Quenneville
Web Developer at thoughtbot, inc.
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoel Quenneville is a seasoned web developer with 13 years of experience, currently at thoughtbot in Boston, who favors best practices, patterns, and functional programming. He has strong Rails and front-end experience from early work building internal apps with Backbone.js and mentoring junior engineers, and he brings a disciplined TDD/refactoring approach to delivery. Joel contributes to notable open-source projects like Mastodon, improving back-end design and test coverage—an indication of his focus on maintainability and correctness at scale. As a mentor and former team lead, he pairs hands-on coding with knowledge sharing and community engagement, and he has a BA in Computer Science from Thomas Edison State University.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at Thomas Edison State University
French, English
Github Skills (14)
testing10
ruby10
rspec10
ruby-rails10
rails10
git9
redis8
activitypub7
social-graph5
dockers5
social-networking5
webfinger5
microblogging5
docker5
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
mastodon/mastodon
Apr 2017 - Apr 2017
Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:7 commits, 7 PRs, 3 comments in 21 days
Contributions summary:Joel primarily focused on improving the Mastodon back-end code by refactoring and adding test coverage. They addressed code duplication, extracted logic into reusable methods, and implemented unit tests for existing and new functionalities. Additionally, the user enhanced testing by adding test coverage for CSS class generation and the Feed model, ensuring the order of data retrieval from Redis is maintained.
social-networkwebfingerpixelfedhosteddocker
JoelQ/down-the-river
Mar 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:1 release, 48 commits, 25 pushes in 21 days
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