Karel Ledru
Founder at Les Gaspilleurs
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolKarel Ledru is a Montreal-based software architect, founder and hands-on developer with 14 years building web applications, developer workflows and remote engineering teams. He has served as CTO at Visible.vc and as a long-term consultant for agencies and startups, delivering custom architectures for clients like Sid Lee and PasswordBox while also leading DevOps and build-tool improvements in open-source projects. His contributions to notable repos—modernizing Chaplin.js for AMD modularity, streamlining i18next-parser for build-tool integration, and containerizing WordPress workflows—show a blend of front-end, back-end and infrastructure fluency. Karel pairs technical depth with product and business insight from a BAA in Business Administration, and outside software he pursues woodworking and photography, reflecting a practical, design-minded approach to craftsmanship.
14 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Scientific Baccalaureat with Honors, Science, Scientific Baccalaureat with Honors, Science at Notre-Dame de la ProvidenceBAA, Business Administration and Management, General, BAA, Business Administration and Management, General at Université de Montréal - HEC MontréalFrench University Preparatory School, French University Preparatory School at École Saint-Michel de Picpus
French, English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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15answers
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Github Skills (34)
javascript10
docker10
coffeescript10
wordpress10
internationalization10
bash10
requirejs10
dockers10
amd10
parsing10
backbonejs10
modular-design10
nodejs10
text-parsing10
backbone10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
i18next/i18next-parser
Feb 2014 - Jan 2023
Parse your code to extract translation keys/values and manage your catalog files
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:16 releases, 46 reviews, 480 commits in 9 years
Contributions summary:Karel contributed to improving the codebase, addressing a bug, and adding a package description. They also improved program options, implemented customizations, and refactored the project for use as a stream transform, suitable for Gulp integration. Furthermore, they added features such as non-recursive parsing, and options for filtering directories and files. The user refactored the project so it could be easily used with build tools.
parserlocalizationi18nexti18ninternationalization
visiblevc/wordpress-starter
Aug 2015 - Oct 2017
A slightly less shitty wordpress development workflow
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:55 commits, 30 PRs, 73 pushes in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Karel focused on configuring and improving the WordPress development workflow within a Docker environment. Their contributions involved setting up the database, installing plugins, and creating scripts for database backups and restores. The user also updated the Docker image, implemented a Gulp asset pipeline, and made improvements to the build process to automate the WordPress deployment.
wordpresstrellisdevelopment-workflowwordpress-developmentwordpress-development-workflow
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