Loïc Guitaut
Senior Software Engineer at Civilized Discourse Construction Kit, Inc.
Greater Paris Metropolitan Region France
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Top SchoolLoïc Guitaut is a senior software engineer with 16 years of experience specializing in Ruby on Rails and building robust backend architectures for startups and scale-ups. Based in the Greater Paris area and working remotely since 2014, he has led engineering efforts at companies like Stuart and Kard, establishing architecture, testing, CI/CD, and developer practices across teams. He contributes to notable open-source work on Discourse, shipping full‑stack features and platform fixes that touch both UI and core behavior. A fast learner who enjoys complex systems, he repeatedly mentors teams, introduces engineering discipline, and rewrites legacy codebases to improve reliability and velocity. Notably, he pairs deep hands‑on implementation with strong documentation and process skills, helping teams adopt Shape Up‑inspired workflows and scalable deployment pipelines.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Epitech
French, English, Spanish
Github Skills (14)
ruby-rails10
rails10
javascript10
ruby10
ember9
ruby-on-rails9
backend9
postgresql9
front-end-development9
back-end-development9
emberjs8
css8
html8
forum8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
discourse/discourse
Feb 2015 - Jan 2023
A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:486 reviews, 67 commits, 377 PRs in 8 years
Contributions summary:Loïc's contributions focused on implementing new features and improvements within the Discourse platform. They added a core component for handling sticky avatars and integrated it into the codebase. Furthermore, the user worked on enhancements to display pending posts on a user's profile page, and also resolved issues related to moderated category behavior. The contributions showcase skills in front-end, back-end, and general Discourse platform development.
discourserailsforumjavascriptruby
Flink/rails_multisite
Mar 2021 - Mar 2024
Multi tenancy for Rails applications
Contributions:2 PRs, 15 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years
ruby-on-railsrails-applicationsrails-apirailsrails-engine
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