Simon Boudrias
Software Engineer at DataDog
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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RockstarSimon Boudrias is a Montreal-based software engineer with 14 years of hands-on experience building developer tools and CLI workflows, best known for significant contributions to Yeoman, Inquirer.js and generator tooling. He spans full-stack work—implementing subgenerators, CLI improvements, and test automation—while also diving deep into front-end build processes and Backbone layout bugs. His contributions show a pragmatic focus on developer experience: improving scaffolding, test suites, and cross-platform CLI reliability (including a yo doctor troubleshooting command). Comfortable refactoring core APIs and modernizing inheritance patterns, he combines attention to filesystem and packaging details with a strong testing-first mindset. An open-source practitioner at heart, he quietly shapes the Node tooling ecosystem that many projects rely on.
14 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (66)
github10
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gruntjs10
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
SBoudrias/Inquirer.js
May 2013 - Jan 2023
A collection of common interactive command line user interfaces.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:191 releases, 224 reviews, 712 commits in 9 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily contributed to the development of interactive command-line user interfaces, which are the core focus of the repository. Their commits focused on implementing features, fixing bugs and improving the existing functionality. Specific contributions include the addition of examples, bug fixes, and file reorganization to improve testing.
javascript-libraryuser-interfacesnodejspromptterminal
yeoman/generator
May 2013 - Feb 2020
Rails-inspired generator system that provides scaffolding for your apps
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:44 releases, 522 commits, 95 PRs in 6 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Simon's commits primarily focus on enhancing and refactoring the core functionalities of the generator. Their contributions include making methods public and fixing path normalization. The changes indicate a deep understanding of the inner workings and file system interactions within the generator, improving the performance of build systems.
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