Simon Courtois - Member at PDFMonkey

Simon Courtois

Member at PDFMonkey

Paris, Ile-de-France

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Simon Courtois is a seasoned software leader and founder with 12+ years building web platforms and developer tools from Paris. As CTO and founder of PDFMonkey he turned a tedious developer pain—PDF generation—into a simple API-driven workflow used by teams to automate document production. His background spans hands-on Ruby on Rails architecture, full-stack feature work (including notable contributions to the simple-navigation gem), and leadership roles from tech lead to CTO across startups and agencies. Simon combines product-driven engineering with mentoring and teaching experience, and he still runs operational ventures while co-founding collaborative entrepreneur networks to scale impact. A pragmatist who values developer happiness, he pairs deep technical chops with a knack for shipping elegant, automatable solutions.

12 years of coding experience

17 years of employment as a software developer

Epitech

Diplôme Universitaire de Technologie Informatique, Diplôme Universitaire de Technologie Informatique at IUT d'Orsay

French, English

Github Skills (11)

rspec10

configuration-management10

ruby-rails10

rails10

navigationbar10

navigationview10

navigation-drawer10

ruby10

menu9

sinatra8

padrino8

Programming languages (15)

BikeshedCSSCRustGoSassHTMLTypeScript

Github contributions (5)

codeplant/simple-navigation

Feb 2014 - Sep 2015

A ruby gem for creating navigations (with multiple levels) for your Rails, Sinatra or Padrino applications. Render your navigation as html list, link list or breadcrumbs.

Role in this project:

Full-stack Developer

Contributions:50 commits, 3 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year 6 months

Contributions summary:Simon primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the `simple-navigation` gem by enabling greater customization options and fixing bugs. They implemented features like allowing custom HTML generation and fixing an issue related to the `:items` option in the `render_navigation` method. Additionally, the user refactored the codebase, including moving configuration-related logic and updating specs to adhere to RSpec 3.

rendersinatrabreadcrumbsruby-gemmenu

simonc/jeveuxapprendreruby.fr

Apr 2014 - Jan 2017

Contributions:16 commits, 13 PRs, 19 pushes in 2 years 10 months

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