Michael Vial
Engineering Director at Busbud
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Vial is an Engineering Director based in Montreal with 12 years of experience building high-performance front-end experiences and leading growing web engineering teams. He combines deep expertise in JavaScript/ES6, UI/UX and client-side performance with hands-on delivery—having led product squads, scaled a web team from 4 to 11 engineers, and improved conversion and SEO performance at Busbud. Earlier work at Dailymotion includes engineering ad integrations that delivered tens of millions of ads per day and contributing to VAST parsing and test automation in open-source libraries. Michael is also a pragmatic people leader and recruiter who streamlined hiring processes and personally interviewed 60+ candidates, while mentoring junior engineers and managing R&D reporting for SRED claims. He balances technical craft (a self-described “legacy code surgeon”) with product impact and a track record of measurable performance improvements.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
DUT Informatique, DUT Informatique at Université Grenoble AlpesMaster of Science (MSc) Web Technologies, Master of Science (MSc) Web Technologies at Oxford Brookes University
English, French
Github Skills (6)
javascript10
parser10
parsing10
coffeescript10
parse10
testing10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dailymotion/vast-client-js
Jun 2014 - Sep 2017
VAST (up to 6) parsing library for JavaScript
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:11 releases, 99 commits, 70 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the `vast-client-js` library by fixing bugs and adding test cases to improve its functionality and reliability. They addressed an issue related to `trackingEvents` property in wrapped companions. Additionally, they added new test cases for the parser and tracker components of the library. The user also bumped version numbers and added new events to the always sent events list.
vastjavascriptparsingparserparsing-library
briganti/vikings
May 2014 - Jun 2016
Contributions:39 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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