Rodrigue Hajjar
Summary
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RockstarRodrigue Hajjar is a seasoned engineering leader with 12 years of experience building and scaling privacy- and networking-focused products used by millions, currently serving as VP of Engineering at Cohere. He blends hands-on engineering—ranging from cross-platform client apps and kernel-level networking features to scalable backend services—with proven leadership in growing teams, designing career ladders, and driving post-acquisition integrations. His work at TunnelBear and McAfee includes anti-censorship VPN strategies, rapid autoscaling designs, and programs to provide free bandwidth in restricted regions, reflecting a strong commitment to accessible, secure internet access. An early founder of a recommendation-driven social app, he also contributes practical open-source fixes (notably enhancing DuckDuckGo Instant Answers) that show attention to user-facing relevance and legacy browser compatibility. Based in Toronto, he combines product intuition, operational rigor, and a knack for empowering underdog teams to deliver impactful, privacy-first experiences.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (8)
duckduckgo10
javascript10
handlebars9
perl9
back-end-development8
front-end-development8
apidoc7
api7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-spice
Jan 2014 - Jul 2014
DuckDuckGo Instant Answers based on JavaScript (JSON) APIs
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 1 comment in 6 months
Contributions summary:Rodrigue primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the DuckDuckGo Instant Answers feature related to Kwixer movie search results. Their contributions included modifying JavaScript code to improve relevance filtering and image handling. They also updated the Perl code to incorporate new trigger phrases for movie searches and made changes to the Handlebars templates to improve the presentation of search results. Furthermore, the user adapted code to be IE8 compatible and addressed a bug in relevance checking by implementing a custom solution.
javascriptinstant-answersperlduckduckgohandlebars-js
TunnelBear/Perfect-HTTPServer
Oct 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:13 pushes, 8 branches in 11 months
server-side-swiftswiftserver-sideperfect
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