Mathieu Jobin
Software Consultant Architect, Programmer, Backend at Mathieu Jobin inc.
Tokyo, Other
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Top SchoolMathieu Jobin is a seasoned software consultant and backend architect with 14 years of experience designing distributed systems and cloud-native services, primarily using Ruby and AWS. He combines deep expertise in software architecture, performance optimization, and refactoring with hands-on skills in Linux administration, networking, and long-running database work dating back to 1999. As a principal consultant and former senior engineer at VenueNext, he’s built microservices, SDKs/APIs, and enabled DevOps practices while mentoring engineers. An active open-source contributor to notable Ruby projects (Apipie, paranoia, Teaspoon), he learns new languages on the job—having picked up Go through code reviews—and recently developed a passion for mobile apps with Flutter. Based in Tokyo, he brings a pragmatic, TDD-driven approach to solving complex backend problems and improving test and deployment robustness.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Université LavalDiploma, Computer science, Diploma, Computer science at CEGEP LimoilouSecondaire Jean-de-Brebeuf
Japanese, French, English
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Github Skills (21)
ruby-rails10
javascript10
selenium10
testing10
rspec10
rails10
selenium-ide10
ruby10
api-documentation10
version-control10
activerecord10
ruby-on-rails10
github-ci9
capybara9
githubaction-workflow9
Programming languages (35)
Github contributions (5)
Apipie/apipie-rails
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
Ruby on Rails API documentation tool
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 releases, 133 reviews, 68 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Mathieu primarily contributed to the maintenance and improvement of the Apipie-Rails project, which is an API documentation tool for Ruby on Rails. Their work focused on upgrading the project, including removing support for older Rails versions and updating the minimum Ruby version. They also focused on updating dependencies and fixing a few issues related to parameter validation.
ruby-on-rails
rubysherpas/paranoia
Oct 2021 - Nov 2022
acts_as_paranoid for Rails 5, 6 and 7
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 releases, 52 reviews, 16 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Mathieu contributed to the `paranoia` gem by adapting its functionality to changes in ActiveRecord/Rails versions. Their work involved conditional logic to maintain compatibility across Rails versions 5, 6, and 7. The user specifically addressed the removal of methods like `clear_association_cache` and updated versioning information. The user also released new gem versions, bumping the version number and updating the changelog.
rails
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