Philippe Simard
Development Team Lead at Statistics Canada
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolPhilippe Simard is a pragmatic Development Team Lead with 13 years of experience building complex Drupal-based CMSs, accessible web experiences (WCAG 2.x) and interactive front-ends using Vue.js, Svelte and modern JS stacks like Next.js and SvelteKit. Based in Ottawa, he combines hands-on PHP backend and REST API design with UX-focused interface work, and has a track record of delivering cloud-ready systems using Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm and Azure. At Statistics Canada he advanced from web developer to lead, guiding teams through practical, delivery-oriented project management while shaping multi-user content applications. An active contributor to the Government of Canada’s WET-BOEW toolkit, he has improved menu behavior and feed parsing for broader HTML compatibility—illustrating his attention to resilient, interoperable front-end code.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Université du Québec en OutaouaisDEC in Techniques d'Intégrations Multimedia, DEC in Techniques d'Intégrations Multimedia at CEGEP de Saint-Jérôme
French, English
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Github Skills (8)
application-framework10
app-framework10
web-framework10
javascript10
accessibility8
web-content8
webpages8
html7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
wet-boew/wet-boew
Jul 2015 - Apr 2018
Web Experience Toolkit (WET): Open source code library for building innovative websites that are accessible, usable, interoperable, mobile-friendly and multilingual. This collaborative open source project is led by the Government of Canada.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 13 comments in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Philippe primarily focused on modifying the JavaScript code related to the menu functionality within the WET-BOEW framework. They addressed scope issues in the `menu.js` file, ensuring correct event handling and preventing unwanted side effects. Furthermore, the user corrected code formatting and modified the selector used for the secondary navigation menu to accommodate a wider variety of HTML structures. The user also made changes to the feeds plugin to correctly parse XHTML formatted titles within feeds.
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ptsimard/wet-boew
Jul 2015 - Apr 2018
Contributions:10 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 9 months
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