Julien Desrosiers
Senior Software Developer at X2O Media
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolJulien Desrosiers is a senior software developer with 17 years of experience designing and shipping web and backend systems from Montreal. He blends hands-on full-stack engineering with product-minded consulting—having run his own agency, led Status Machine, and helped rewrite core product offerings at companies like X2O Media and Genetec. Julien has strong ops and data-processing chops from roles at Seevibes and Audiokinetic, and contributes to open-source projects such as the widely used gocrawl crawler, where he improved URL processing and robustness. Comfortable across languages and platforms, he focuses on pragmatic refactors, test-driven improvements, and maintainable architecture. Colleagues rely on him to translate business needs into deployable, high-quality software and durable engineering practices.
17 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
ASP, Lancement d'entreprise, ASP, Lancement d'entreprise at École des entrepreneurs du QuébecAEC, Développement Web et Commerce Électronique, AEC, Développement Web et Commerce Électronique at ITI du Collège de MaisonneuveDEP, Procédé infographique, DEP, Procédé infographique at Centre de formation Compétences 2000
French, English
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Github Skills (18)
web-crawler10
webscraper10
url-parsing10
webscraping10
crawling10
go10
crawler10
testing8
html6
nokogiri6
ruby-on-rails6
nodejs6
devise6
ruby6
git6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
PuerkitoBio/gocrawl
Oct 2015 - Nov 2015
Polite, slim and concurrent web crawler.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 15 comments in 20 days
Contributions summary:Julien focused on enhancing the core functionality of the gocrawl web crawler. They implemented features related to handling the `<base>` tag for URL processing, ensuring correct link resolution within crawled documents. Further contributions involved code refactoring, including test implementation, and adjustments to the logic of the URL processing.
web-crawlerslimcrawlerpoliteconcurrent
juliend2/julienMP3Player
Mar 2011 - Jun 2013
Contributions:45 commits in 2 years 3 months
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