Louis-edouard Lafontant
Academic Program Coordinator
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolLouis-edouard Lafontant is a software engineer, educator, and researcher with a decade of experience building web tools, teaching programming and software engineering, and coordinating academic programs at Université de Montréal. He blends practical engineering—spanning JS frameworks, Python, Symfony/Django backends, GIS mapping libraries, and containerized deployments—with a research interest in modeling and human-computer interaction to craft intuitive, usable systems. As a lecturer and project supervisor he emphasizes hands-on learning, critical thinking, and student autonomy, supervising applied projects that bridge theory and practice. His background running IT operations for a family business and contributing to university digital projects gives him a pragmatic systems perspective alongside academic rigor. Based in Montreal, he is open to cross-disciplinary collaborations that empower users and advance interactive tool design.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Université de MontréalBachelor's degree (Incomplete) Industrial Engineering, Bachelor's degree (Incomplete) Industrial Engineering at Polytechnique Montréal
English, French
Github Skills (10)
javascript10
mde10
editor10
dsl10
sms-messages9
garmin8
web-application7
jekyll6
kaios5
hugo5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
geodes-sms/gentleman
Aug 2018 - Nov 2022
Gentleman is a lightweight web-based projectional editor that allows you to create and manipulate models.
Contributions:217 commits, 59 PRs, 173 pushes in 4 years 4 months
modeldsljavascriptweb-basedmde
ceduni/udem-ift2255
Apr 2022 - Nov 2024
Contributions:83 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
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