Yoann Moinet
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Datadog
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolYoann Moinet is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 15 years of experience who has built and led Datadog’s Frontend Platform team to serve 200+ frontend engineers, focusing exclusively on Developer Experience, tooling, and CI/CD for frontend. He scaled build and pipeline systems in a large monorepo to preserve fast feedback loops, created cross-organization workflows, and grew the team from a one-person initiative to a self-managed unit. Hands-on and tooling-obsessed, he hasn’t worked on product code since 2019 and prefers roles centered on DX, automation, and platform engineering. An active open-source contributor, his enhancements to the virtual joystick project (nipplejs) reflect deep attention to UX details like multitouch, pressure data, and cross-browser event handling. Based in Ottawa with a background spanning startups to enterprise (Zendesk, Autodesk), he combines pragmatic engineering with process design to remove developer friction at scale.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Informatique, Bachelor's degree Informatique at Université de MontréalBachelor's degree Communication en Médias Intéractifs, Bachelor's degree Communication en Médias Intéractifs at UQAM | Université du Québec à MontréalBaccalauréat Scientifique, Baccalauréat Scientifique at Saint LouisBrevet de technicien supérieur (BTS) Communication Visuelle, Brevet de technicien supérieur (BTS) Communication Visuelle at La Tourrache
English, French
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Github Skills (17)
javascript10
event-handling10
user-interface10
dom-manipulation10
front-end-development10
touch-event10
jquery9
css9
nvm6
jquery-ui6
html6
zepto6
nodejs6
php6
scroll6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
yoannmoinet/nipplejs
Sep 2015 - Oct 2022
:video_game: A virtual joystick for touch capable interfaces.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 13 reviews, 394 commits in 7 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Yoann primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and usability of the virtual joystick, `nipplejs`. Their contributions included adding features like scrolling offset to account for the page's position, and pressure data to events. Moreover, they refined the user experience by improving the event handling and re-arranging tasks within the build process, and adding support for multitouch and IE PointerEvents. The changes demonstrate a commitment to refining the core functionality and user interaction aspects of the joystick.
javascripttouchvideo-gamefrontendvideo
yoannmoinet/dotconf
Nov 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:37 commits, 17 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 9 months
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