Simon Grondin
Lead Developer, Co-founder at Govpop.com
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolSimon Grondin is a Lead Developer and co-founder with 12 years of experience building scalable web platforms and infrastructure from DNS and server ops to Node.js back ends. He leads Govpop’s technical stack and maintains Failheap-Challenge, a high‑traffic community site serving tens of millions of annual pageviews. Equally comfortable in applied research and production, he develops Parsek, a compile-to-VHDL language that targets FPGAs for automatic parallelization, while also publishing high-quality libraries to NPM. Notably, he invented an open-source technique to bypass government firewalls that serves millions of queries daily, showing a blend of pragmatic problem-solving and commitment to open tooling. Based in San Francisco, he favors functional programming and parallel computing and consistently turns complex problems into elegant, deployable solutions.
13 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Génie informatique - Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering, Génie informatique - Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Université du Québec - Ecole de Technologie supérieureComputer Science Technical Degree (DEC-BAC en Informatique), Information Technology, Graduated, Computer Science Technical Degree (DEC-BAC en Informatique), Information Technology, Graduated at Cégep de Trois-Rivières
English, French
Github Skills (200)
handlers10
effects10
http-client10
serverless10
ppx10
opam10
unix10
package-repository10
api10
httpd10
child-process10
combinators10
docker-desktop10
highlighting10
octokit10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
newque/newque
Sep 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:5 releases, 12 PRs, 125 pushes in 11 months
networkedtoolboxnetworkingmodularnetwork
SGrondin/eio
Jul 2023 - Mar 2024
Effects-based direct-style IO for multicore OCaml
Contributions:2 PRs, 97 pushes, 27 branches in 8 months
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