Marc Gibbons
Senior Software Engineering at Lincoln Loop
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolMarc Gibbons is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building Python/Django-backed web APIs and full-stack user experiences, currently at Lincoln Loop after a decade-long tenure leading UX-focused engineering at Lights On Software. He combines deep backend expertise—demonstrated by contributions to the django-rest-swagger project—with practical full-stack skills and a history of shipping production systems across diverse stacks (Postgres, Redis, NoSQL) and languages. Marc pairs engineering craft with user-centered design, often acting as both developer and project lead on teams ranging from two to eight people. Outside software he brings uncommon discipline and teaching instincts from a parallel career as a professional oboist and music instructor, which inform his collaborative leadership and attention to detail. A cancer survivor and health advocate, he also founded a community cycling project, reflecting a commitment to resilience and real-world impact beyond code.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate Certificate Web Development, Graduate Certificate Web Development at Humber CollegeMaster of Music Orchestral Performance (Oboe), Master of Music Orchestral Performance (Oboe) at McGill University
French, English
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Github Skills (19)
api-rest10
python10
api-design10
restful-api10
django10
django-rest10
swagger10
django-rest-framework10
rest-api10
openapi10
build-tools8
build-system8
build-script8
vim6
mouse6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
marcgibbons/django-rest-swagger
Jun 2013 - Jun 2019
Swagger Documentation Generator for Django REST Framework: deprecated
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 315 commits, 141 PRs in 6 years
Contributions summary:Marc primarily focused on the backend of the Django REST Swagger project, implementing features and fixing bugs related to the API documentation generation. Their work included adding and modifying production settings, merging code changes, updating production settings and updating the distribution to include fixes and version updates. Further development focused on incorporating features such as authorization checks for Swagger documentation access.
pythondjango-rest-frameworkdjangodocumentation-generatorrest-framework
marcgibbons/flake8-datetime-import
Oct 2022 - Nov 2022
A plugin for flake8 which enforces importing `datetime as dt` and `time as tm`.
Contributions:10 releases, 6 reviews, 19 commits in 1 month
datetimepythonflake8importing
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