Simon Grondin
Lead Developer, Co-founder at Govpop.com
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolSimon Grondin is a pragmatic engineering leader and co-founder with 13 years of experience building scalable web platforms, high-volume communities, and developer tools. Based in San Francisco, he leads Govpop.com’s full-stack development and operations while administering Failheap-Challenge, a community serving millions of monthly pageviews. His background spans server administration, DNS, data modeling, Node.js and Java backends, as well as front-end design and performance-focused PHP/MySQL engineering. He mixes research and applied engineering—having developed a compile-to-VHDL language targeting FPGA parallelization and publishing several quality NPM libraries. Simon also created a widely used, open-source technique to bypass government firewalls, demonstrating his knack for pragmatic, impactful systems work. He combines entrepreneurial drive with a preference for elegant, functional approaches to parallel and distributed problems.
13 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Génie informatique - Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering, Génie informatique - Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Université du Québec - Ecole de Technologie supérieureComputer Science Technical Degree (DEC-BAC en Informatique), Information Technology, Graduated, Computer Science Technical Degree (DEC-BAC en Informatique), Information Technology, Graduated at Cégep de Trois-Rivières
English, French
Github Skills (200)
handlers10
effects10
http-client10
serverless10
ppx10
opam10
unix10
package-repository10
api10
httpd10
child-process10
docker-desktop10
highlighting10
octokit10
dune10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
newque/newque
Sep 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:5 releases, 12 PRs, 125 pushes in 11 months
networkedtoolboxnetworkingmodularnetwork
SGrondin/eio
Jul 2023 - Mar 2024
Effects-based direct-style IO for multicore OCaml
Contributions:2 PRs, 97 pushes, 27 branches in 8 months
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