Stéphane Lafontaine
Ruby On Rails Back End Developer at Petal
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolStéphane Lafontaine is a mid-level Ruby on Rails back-end developer based in Montreal with eight years of hands-on experience building and maintaining production Rails applications, currently contributing to a large monolith at Petal. Previously he led Le Wagon Montreal as lead teacher and batch owner, coaching instructors, managing Agile student projects (80+), and teaching Ruby, Rails (v5–7), OOP and JS—experience that honed his product-thinking and mentorship skills. He’s proficient with Postgres, ActiveRecord, Action Cable, RSpec, Webpack and Heroku, and routinely writes tests, docs, and incident investigations. Beyond code, Stéphane’s background as a sound engineer, Shiatsu therapist and Qigong instructor gives him a practical, people-centered approach to leadership and problem solving that surfaces in team coaching and cross-functional collaboration.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Développeur Web Full Stack - Ruby on Rails, Développement Web, Développeur Web Full Stack, Développeur Web Full Stack - Ruby on Rails, Développement Web, Développeur Web Full Stack at Le WagonMassothérapeute, Shiatsu, Massothérapeute, Shiatsu at GuijekThérapeute en Qìgong Médical, Qigong, Qigong Médical, Thérapeute en Qìgong Médical, Qigong, Qigong Médical at Centre de Qigong Laflamme
French, English
Github Skills (16)
wagon9
message-board8
web-development7
ruby6
forum5
rails5
java2
video-chat2
chat2
csharp1
perfect1
web-application1
android1
ruby-on-rails1
react1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
stephlaf/bookings
Feb 2021 - Jun 2023
Contributions:1 PR, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
javascriptactiverecordrails-application
stephlaf/chreativegaming
Feb 2023 - Nov 2024
This is a project built on Ruby on Rails for a client who aims to build a gaming community.
Contributions:2 PRs, 13 pushes, 12 branches in 1 year 9 months
javascriptrails-applicationrubystimulus
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