Nicolas Hery
Staff Software Engineer at Numa
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolNicolas Hery is a Staff Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building full‑stack web applications across industries including cybersecurity, travel e‑commerce, healthcare, automotive and online grocery. He blends hands‑on engineering in Python, TypeScript and Go with product and UX sensibilities, emphasizing maintainability through static typing, conventions, documentation and improved onboarding. As an engineering manager he has created high‑performing cross‑functional teams, improved delivery flow, and established org‑level tooling and docs to scale developer productivity. He’s comfortable across languages (including Haskell and Kotlin) and has a practical knack for designing multi‑tenant auth and background processing systems in production. An active open‑source contributor, he’s implemented nuanced front‑end features like portal lifecycle hooks, showing attention to both developer ergonomics and user experience. Based in Montreal, he pairs pragmatic technical depth with a focus on sustainable team practices and measurable operational improvements.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Industrial Engineering, Master of Science Industrial Engineering at Centrale NantesMaster of Science Operations Research, Master of Science Operations Research at Columbia Engineering
French, English
Github Skills (6)
modal-windows10
portal10
modal-dialog10
javascript10
modals10
react10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
tajo/react-portal
Jul 2015 - Sep 2015
🎯 React component for transportation of modals, lightboxes, loading bars... to document.body or else.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 6 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Nicolas primarily contributed to the React-based front-end components of the `react-portal` library. They implemented features such as the `onOpen` prop, which allows for custom actions when a portal is opened, and refactored the code to align with React 0.14. Their work also included modifying the example application to demonstrate how to use the portal component with absolute positioning and custom event handling.
react-componentreactmodaltransportationloading-bar
nicolashery/example-ui-as-data
Dec 2014 - Jan 2015
Contributions:44 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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