Neil Lalonde
Software Developer at Civilized Discourse Construction Kit, Inc.
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolNeil Lalonde is a pragmatic software developer with 16 years of experience building web applications, RFID middleware, and high-performance services using Ruby/Rails, Java/Spring, and C/C++. Based in Toronto, he has moved between product-focused startups and enterprise teams—shipping scalable systems at Avid Life Media, creating his own Rails app FitLogg, and leading technical work on Discourse. His skill set spans full-stack web development, databases (DB2, MySQL), test-driven practices (RSpec, Cucumber), and systems integration with hardware. He’s comfortable translating legacy systems to modern platforms—a strength honed at IBM—and enjoys learning and applying new technologies to solve practical problems.
16 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
B. Eng., Computer Engineering, B. Eng., Computer Engineering at McMaster University
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Github Skills (95)
previews10
postgresql10
emoji10
browsable10
ruby10
google-ad-manager10
ember10
composer10
sql-query10
javascript10
wordpress10
spam10
sql10
ads10
database10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
discourse/discourse-data-explorer
Dec 2017 - Jun 2020
SQL Queries for admins in Discourse
Contributions:26 commits, 25 pushes in 2 years 7 months
discoursesql-queriesdiscourse-pluginsqldatabase
discourse/discourse-cakeday
Jan 2016 - Jun 2020
Show a birthday cake emoji beside the names of members on their join anniversary, or their actual birthday -- and a browsable directory of upcoming anniversaries / birthdays.
Contributions:27 commits, 1 PR, 22 pushes in 4 years 5 months
emojibirthdaysdiscourse-pluginbrowsableanniversary
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