Summary
Philippe Simard is a pragmatic front-end web developer with about nine years of experience and roughly four years focused on building performant, ergonomic user interfaces using Angular, Vue.js, TypeScript and modern web tooling. He currently contributes to front-end projects at Université Laval and as a consultant with Astek Canada, bringing experience from startups, SMEs and community organizations. With a background that includes freelance work and academic projects, he pairs a designer’s eye—Adobe XD, Sketch—with strong engineering practices (Node.js, testing, CI/CD, Google Cloud). Passionate about ethically impactful tech, he prioritizes accessibility, performance and maintainability in ambitious, change-oriented products. Unusually for a front‑ender, he is also a Ph.D. candidate in applied mathematics (numerical optimization), which informs a methodical, data-driven approach to UI problems. Colleagues describe him as adaptable, collaborative, and keen to both learn from others and share knowledge.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Intégration multimédia, Intégration multimédia at Cégep de Sainte-Foy
Collège de Champigny
French, English