Yanick Rochon
Consultant at CGI
Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolYanick Rochon is a seasoned consultant and full-stack engineer with 15 years of experience building and improving software systems across manufacturing, web, and embedded domains. Rooted in Linux and open-source enthusiasm, he has a strong track record of technical leadership—designing microservices, improving CI/CD practices, and mentoring junior developers. His contributions to projects like the ZfcUser Zend Framework module highlight a pragmatic focus on secure, maintainable authentication and form handling. Yanick pairs hands-on coding (Win32 apps, Raspberry Pi prototypes, ERP integrations) with project-level responsibilities such as estimates, code reviews, and process improvements. Based in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, he brings a teacher’s mindset—documenting, coaching, and constantly experimenting in his GitHub/GitLab tinkering space. Colleagues describe him as ethically driven and deliberately cultivating excellence through habits, not one-off acts.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BAC, Software engineering, BAC, Software engineering at École de technologie supérieureBAC, Informatique, BAC, Informatique at Université du Québec à Trois-RivièresDEC, Computer management, DEC, Computer management at Collège Montmorency
French, English
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Github Skills (38)
javascript10
jquery10
css10
zend-framework10
authentication10
user-authentication10
forms10
java10
border10
use-form10
php10
text-files10
byte10
eforms10
mysql9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
ZF-Commons/ZfcUser
Jun 2012 - Jun 2012
A generic user registration and authentication module for ZF2. Supports Zend\Db and Doctrine2. (Formerly EdpUser)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits in 21 days
Contributions summary:Yanick primarily focused on enhancing the ZfcUser module for Zend Framework 2. Their contributions involved refactoring and adding features such as login widget implementations, redirect functionality after login, and the addition of a user display name view helper. The user also worked on form-related aspects, including CSRF protection and CAPTCHA integration, and removing deprecated or redundant code. These changes show a focus on enhancing user authentication and registration within the framework.
zendzf2phpauthenticationregistration
yanickrochon/error-factory
Apr 2014 - Sep 2015
Contributions:27 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 1 year 5 months
node-jsvalidnodejserrorcustom-error
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