Laurent Gaches
Staff Software Developer at VVEAVE
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolLaurent Gaches is a Staff Software Developer with 15 years of experience designing and shipping mobile and backend systems, currently based in Montreal. He blends deep iOS and Android expertise (Objective-C, Swift, Java) with backend and systems work in Swift and Rust, and a strong emphasis on secure, test-driven engineering. At companies from Air France to SSENSE and VVEAVE he has led teams and technical initiatives, reliably delivering production-grade features under tight deadlines. Laurent is an active open-source contributor—improving APNSwift’s testing and CI, hardening MongoKitten with SSL and auth, and adding cloud logging support to SwiftyBeaver—showing a knack for infrastructure, automation, and security. He brings an entrepreneurial mindset that anticipates platform trends and favors pragmatic, maintainable solutions. Colleagues value his ability to simplify complex problems and foresee practical alternatives that keep projects moving forward.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III
English, Spanish, French
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Github Skills (36)
apn10
google-cloud-platform10
ios10
ssl10
tls1210
testing10
authentication10
user-authentication10
swiftui-app10
fastlane10
swift-package-manager10
tls1310
mongodb-database10
gcp10
ruby10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
lgaches/BeaconEmitter
Nov 2013 - Jan 2023
Turn your Mac as an iBeacon
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:2 releases, 5 reviews, 46 commits in 9 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Laurent focused on rewriting the existing iBeacon emitter application in SwiftUI. They implemented the core functionality for configuring and starting iBeacon advertising, including UUID, major, minor, and power settings. The user also added features such as a refresh button and copy/paste functionality for the UUID. Code changes also reflect an update to a more recent import.
ibeaconmacswiftmacosswiftui
orlandos-nl/MongoKitten
Dec 2016 - Apr 2017
Native MongoDB driver for Swift, written in Swift
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:1 release, 144 commits, 6 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Laurent contributed significantly to enhancing the security and functionality of the MongoDB driver. The commits demonstrate the implementation of SSL support, including handling invalid certificates, to secure the connection between the driver and the server. Additionally, the user added features for more flexible authentication mechanisms, which improves the system's overall security posture. They also worked on refactoring the connection process and added unit tests to improve the reliability.
swift-package-managermongodb-nativemongodb-native-driverswiftdatabase
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