Vincent Prigent
Senior Software Engineer at Driversnote
Auckland, Auckland, Denmark
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Top SchoolVincent Prigent is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and maintaining Ruby on Rails applications across startups and scaleups, currently based in Auckland. He has driven core product and payments work at Addressfinder—leading a migration from Eway/Bpoint to Stripe—and now contributes to Driversnote’s platform engineering. A pragmatic back-end specialist, Vincent has improved performance and reliability in open-source tooling, notably optimizing the bullet gem to catch N+1 queries and refine memoization and tests. His career spans hands-on roles from internships to senior developer positions at cricHQ and 3print, giving him deep operational familiarity with production Rails stacks. Comfortable working on both long-term projects and short-term contracts, he combines pragmatic engineering with an eye for measurable performance gains.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Licence Professionnelle DAWIN : Développeur en applications web et images numériques Développement web, Licence Professionnelle DAWIN : Développeur en applications web et images numériques Développement web at Université de Bordeaux
English, French
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Github Skills (18)
ruby-rails10
rails10
ruby10
performance-optimization10
rspec9
activerecord9
sqlite8
sql8
passenger6
heroku6
nodejs6
php6
gulp6
jquery6
github6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
flyerhzm/bullet
May 2024 - Mar 2025
help to kill N+1 queries and unused eager loading
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 6 PRs, 10 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Vincent contributed to the `bullet` gem, which helps identify and eliminate N+1 queries in Rails applications. Their work included optimizing the code, specifically memoizing registry calls for performance improvements. They updated the benchmark to use SQLite and addressed minor bugs such as missing require statements and typo fixes. The user also refined and fixed tests to avoid memoization-related issues in the codebase.
eagerunusedkilleager-loadingqueries
MiniMelo/minimelo-app
Feb 2016 - Dec 2017
Contributions:12 PRs, 16 pushes, 16 branches in 1 year 10 months
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