Simon Lacroix
Senior Software Engineer at ModMed
Berlin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Lacroix is a Senior Software Engineer based in Berlin with over a decade of hands-on experience building and migrating web applications and infrastructure. He has a strong Ruby/Rails background, contributed meaningful fixes and features to the popular jira-ruby gem, and has repeatedly improved API integration, pagination, and attachment handling in open-source tooling. Simon has led cloud migrations and platform initiatives—moving services from bare-metal to Kubernetes on Google Cloud, introducing Kafka-based messaging, and refactoring monoliths into event-sourced, DDD-aligned architectures. He balances backend systems work with front-end React/Redux experience and a pragmatic focus on maintainability by extracting business logic into services. Known for mentoring engineers and shipping reliable integrations (Zapier apps, JIRA/Pivotal/Trello connectors), he thrives on turning complex legacy stacks into testable, scalable systems.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Programming, Bachelor's degree Computer Programming at HEPL - Haute Ecole de la Province de Liège
Github Skills (7)
package-development10
rspec10
api10
apidoc10
ruby10
pagination9
git9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sumoheavy/jira-ruby
Dec 2016 - Jan 2023
A Ruby gem for the JIRA REST API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 79 commits, 66 PRs in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily contributed to the core functionality of the JIRA Ruby gem, focusing on enhancing the API interaction capabilities. Their work included implementing pagination for project user retrieval and fixing issues related to createmeta functionality. Additionally, they addressed code duplication and reverted changes that introduced test failures, indicating a commitment to code quality and stability. The user also added the ability to create attachments within the gem.
apiruby-gemjirarubygem
SimonMiaou/gitland-client
Apr 2020 - May 2020
Contributions:12337 pushes, 1 branch in 18 days
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