Steven Vachon
Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolSteven Vachon is a frontend-focused engineer with 13 years of experience who blends UI craftsmanship with cloud architecture to deliver maintainable, correct, and efficient web software. He has shipped full-stack features at companies like Grafana Labs, Capital One, TD Bank and Intuit, and contributes to widely used open-source projects such as Cheerio and Grafana’s toolkit. Comfortable across GUI, CLI and API surfaces, he’s improved HTML parsing correctness, build tooling, and end-to-end testing workflows—work that subtly raises reliability across ecosystems. Based in Niagara Falls, Ontario, he pairs pragmatic engineering with strong documentation and testing habits to keep teams productive. Beyond product work, he authors tooling like a broken-link checker that demonstrates his attention to developer experience and performance.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Grades 1–8, Grades 1–8 at Cardinal Leger Catholic SchoolKindergarten, Kindergarten at St. Malachy Catholic SchoolHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at St. John Paul II Catholic Secondary School
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (38)
babel610
parserator10
css-transitions10
cheerio10
javascript10
parser10
testing10
typescript10
eslint10
grafana10
webpack10
html-parsing10
webpacker10
typescript-types10
babel-core10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
stevenvachon/broken-link-checker
Jan 2015 - Mar 2021
Find broken links, missing images, etc within your HTML.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:69 commits, 42 PRs, 587 pushes in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Steven contributed to the development of a broken link checker tool. Their work focused on implementing core functionalities, including the parsing of HTML to identify and extract URLs. The user wrote code for resolving relative URLs and integrating a URL caching mechanism to improve performance. They also contributed significantly to the testing of the tool's public API.
urlsmissingmeta-tagsnodejshtml5
grafana/grafana
Dec 2019 - Jan 2021
The open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres and many more.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:20 reviews, 97 commits, 131 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Steven primarily worked on the `@grafana/toolkit`, a tool likely used for building and developing Grafana plugins. Their contributions focused on updating the toolkit's webpack configurations, including the transition from `ts-loader` to `babel-loader` and the integration of ESLint. They also addressed testing and build processes and integrated Cypress for e2e testing.
visualizeobservabilitybusiness-intelligencegrafanaprometheus
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