Simon Lecoq
Greater Montreal Metropolitan Area Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Lecoq is a pragmatic full-stack engineer with nine years of experience building reliable backend systems and improving developer tooling from Montreal. He is an active open-source contributor to prominent projects like the Deno standard library—adding testing assertions, YAML type support, and HTTP improvements—and has enhanced developer-focused tools for metrics visualization and integration testing. Comfortable across backend architecture and test automation, he has delivered features that improve test flexibility, observability, and data presentation while fixing subtle bugs. Trained as an engineer with a master’s degree from the University of Quebec at Chicoutimi, he combines rigorous academic foundations with hands-on contributions to widely used open-source ecosystems. An inquisitive collaborator, he brings attention to detail that shows up in both diff-level improvements and richer test reporting.
9 years of coding experience
Baccalauréat scientifique, Baccalauréat scientifique at Eugène Woillez high schoolEngineer's degree, Engineer's degree at Higher Institute for Electronics and DigitalMaster's degree, Master's degree at University of Quebec At Chicoutimi
English, French
Github Skills (19)
deno10
javascript10
testing10
typescript10
test-framework10
go10
github-api10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
integration-testing10
test-automation10
command-line9
collections8
cli8
cli-application8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
lowlighter/metrics
Sep 2020 - Jan 2023
📊 An infographics generator with 30+ plugins and 300+ options to display stats about your GitHub account and render them as SVG, Markdown, PDF or JSON!
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:135 releases, 228 reviews, 1808 commits in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Simon's commits primarily involve adding and modifying functionality within the "metrics" repository. The changes include improvements to the stargazers display, such as total stargazers and new stargazers per day, and the inclusion of the option to include forks. The commits also touch on code formatting by adding new features and fixing some errors. These types of changes highlight the user's focus on improving the project's data presentation capabilities.
renderinfographicsmarkdowngithub-metricspdf
ovh/venom
Nov 2021 - Oct 2022
🐍 Manage and run your integration tests with efficiency - Venom run executors (script, HTTP Request, web, imap, etc... ) and assertions
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:16 reviews, 11 commits, 7 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily contributed to enhancing the `venom` project, an integration testing tool, by implementing new features and improving existing functionalities. Key contributions include adding support for ranged iterations within test steps, introducing logical operators for assertions, and integrating retry mechanisms based on specified conditions. Furthermore, the user focused on improving the output by detailing the steps. These changes demonstrate a focus on enhancing test flexibility, reporting, and execution control within the framework.
integration-teststesting-toolscliimapassertions
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