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    Philippe Legault

    Philippe Legault

    Venture at AngelList, 3rd engineer at Forge Global; MSc Computer Science; design + theoretical cs. research background.

    Senior Software Engineer San Francisco University of Ottawa ...
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    Experience
    AngelList
    AngelList
    Senior Software Engineer 2022 - Present (over 4 years)
    Forge
    Exit
    Forge
    Senior Software Engineer 2017 - Present (about 9 years)
    • Led the rewrite of the frontend of Forge’s next gen web app: designed (from requirements) high-fidelity mock-ups & implemented in Vue.js, TypeScript & GraphQL.
    •... more Reviewed merge requests; added linting and code style guidelines.
    • Supervised contractors; coordinated with marketing, legal, compliance stakeholders.
    • Demo’ed to external parties; negotiated contracts with data providers.
    • Developed tools that saved hundreds of hours of manual labour and
    resulted in millions of dollars of revenue.
    Nivelo
    Nivelo
    Lead Software Engineer 2021 - 2022 (about 1 year)
    Tripadvisor
    Tripadvisor
    Software Developer 2015 (4 months)
    • Transformed a prototype of the mobile webpage for airports, on the TripAdvisor website, into a production-ready page in less than two weeks, ahead of schedule.
    • Added... more RTL support to the airport webpage and coordinated with the TripAdvisor China Team for a simultaneous first release of the webpage in China and worldwide.
    • Developed a component displaying events to take place in venues, for a hackathon: more than 100,000 attractions were temporarily enhanced with events.
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    Tripadvisor, Nivelo, Forge, AngelList
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    About
    Achievements

    • Securities Industry Essentials (SIE) certified
    • Co-author of an article on new bounds for a problem related to TSP in the SIAM Journal of Discrete Math
    • Authored Minecraft plugins downloaded 100K+ times
    • Authored a Delaunay triangulation JS library with 4K downloads on NPM (faster-delaunay)
    • Level 150+ Project Euler user
    • Successful $8,000 Kickstarter Project

    Interests ranging from financial markets and web app development to algorithms, UI/UX and graphic design. Check out my software development work and my UI/UX design work on GitHub and at https://legault.cc!

    Describe the most impressive thing you've done.
    Skills
    Java Javascript Vue.Js ReactJS TypeScript PostgreSQL GraphQL GWT HTML5 & CSS3 UI/UX Design Financial Markets Sketch Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator
    Locations
    San Francisco
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