Lois Desplat
Garden Leave Evaluating Business Ideas Enterpreneurship
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLois Desplat is a seasoned software leader and Team Lead, AI based in New York with 12 years of experience building complex, production-grade systems across finance, e-commerce, identity, and scientific domains. She has led infrastructure and core services teams at Citadel, scaled high-availability microservices and event-driven architectures at Walmart Grocery, and now focuses on AI engineering. A hands-on engineer fluent in Java, C/C++, Python and SQL, she combines deep systems and database experience with interests in 3D graphics, Bayesian networks and software architecture. Her open-source contributions include back-end improvements to widely used authentication tooling (hapijs/bell), demonstrating attention to OAuth2 standards and rigorous testing. She’s also an entrepreneur who has bootstrapped startups and spent time evaluating business ideas, bringing product intuition to technical leadership. Colleagues rely on her for turning complex requirements into robust, secure, and maintainable systems.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Software Engineering, BS, Software Engineering at San José State UniversityFoothill College
French, English
Github Skills (6)
hapi10
user-authentication10
authentication10
javascript10
oauth10
testing9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
hapijs/bell
Jun 2015 - Nov 2017
Third-party login plugin for hapi
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:131 commits, 104 PRs, 123 pushes in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Lois primarily focused on enhancing the `bell` plugin by ensuring that the authentication process adhered to specific OAuth2 standards, particularly during /token access. This involved code modifications in the `lib/oauth.js`, `lib/index.js`, and several provider-specific files to handle authentication methods, client secrets and parameters. The user also contributed to the testing suite by modifying the test mocks and other related files, to align with the OAuth2 protocol. Additionally, the user fixed a typo to improve the code's readability.
apihapipartyhapijsthird-party
ldesplat/bell
Jun 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:76 pushes, 7 branches, 1 tag in 1 year 3 months
apihapipartythird-party
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