Kevin Lacointe
Principal Engineer (remote) at Welcome to the Jungle
Sainte-Luce-sur-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Lacointe is a Principal Engineer with 16 years of experience, currently leading remote engineering efforts at Welcome to the Jungle and specializing in full-stack systems built with Elixir, Ruby, NodeJS, Golang and React. He combines hands-on backend expertise—evidenced by contributions improving Phoenix authentication handling—with front-end and ops know-how around tools like Algolia, SendGrid, Datadog, Sentry and AWS. Kevin has a track record of progressing from freelance designer/developer work through senior full-stack leadership roles, bringing a pragmatic blend of product sensibility and engineering craft. Comfortable in polyglot environments, he has a genuine passion for open source and language diversity that informs how he designs interoperable, maintainable systems. Based in Pays de la Loire, France, he pairs deep technical breadth with experience mentoring distributed teams and shipping production-grade features at scale.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Licence Professionelle Activités et Techniques de Communication, Licence Professionelle Activités et Techniques de Communication at Université de Caen NormandieDEUG Mathématiques et Informatique (1ère année), DEUG Mathématiques et Informatique (1ère année) at Le Havre Normandy UniversityDUT Services et Réseaux de Communication, DUT Services et Réseaux de Communication at Institut Universitaire de Technologie de Saint-LôBaccalauréat Scientifique, Baccalauréat Scientifique at Lycée Guillaume le Conquérant, Lillebonne
English, Spanish, French
Github Skills (8)
user-authentication10
authentication10
phoenix-framework10
elixir10
package9
hex9
shex9
testing7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
smpallen99/coherence
Oct 2017 - Oct 2018
Coherence is a full featured, configurable authentication system for Phoenix
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 4 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily focused on enhancing the Coherence authentication system for Phoenix by handling different data formats, specifically JSON. They implemented functionalities for various scenarios, including success, error, and locked-account situations. The contributions also include code style improvements, and they touched upon email handling functionalities to provide confirmation updates.
hexfull-featuredcoherencephoenix-frameworkauthentication-system
klacointe/wikidata-client
Sep 2014 - Mar 2022
Wikidata and Wikipedia API client.
Contributions:98 commits, 18 PRs, 45 pushes in 7 years 7 months
api-clientapiwikidatawikipediawiki
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