Olivier Mekki
Founder at Kik Finance
Dijon, Bourgogne – Franche-Comté, France
Summary
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SeniorOlivier Mekki is a founder and hands-on technology leader with 17 years of experience bootstrapping startups, scaling product-led businesses, and building trading and fintech systems. He’s comfortable across the stack—from Ruby/Rails and early frontend SPA work to performance-tuned C and Go for intensive data processing—and has repeatedly served as CTO or founding engineer to take ideas from Google Doc prototypes to million-euro seasonal revenues. An active open-source contributor, he has improved jsdom’s DOM support for Node.js, reflecting attention to web standards and core library quality. Based in Dijon, he now runs a self-funded quantitative trading firm while previously leading engineering at Glowssary, demonstrating a blend of product intuition, operational rigor, and a taste for exploring new technologies that aren’t yet mainstream.
17 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (5)
html10
javascript10
nodejs10
dom-api10
jsdom10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
jsdom/jsdom
Dec 2010 - Dec 2010
A JavaScript implementation of various web standards, for use with Node.js
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Olivier primarily contributed to the core functionality of the jsdom library. Their commits focused on adding and modifying methods related to the Document and Element interfaces, specifically related to HTML DOM manipulation. The changes include implementing `getElementsByTagNameNS`, adding innerHTML getter/setter, and adding `getElementsByClassName` on `Document`. These additions extended the library's support for web standards and DOM API.
jsdomnode-jsjavascriptstandardsnodejs
oelmekki/darwinjs-rails
Apr 2013 - Mar 2015
Contributions:35 commits, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 11 months
enhancementdegradationgracefuljavascriptjavascript-framework
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