
Lucas Grondin
Verified Expert in Engineering
Back-end Developer
Taipei, Taiwan
Toptal member since June 26, 2020
Lucas is a professional developer who has been developing complex applications for more than five years. His experience focuses on and spans high-exposure areas in medicine, data security, and web3. His focus is on stable, tested, high-quality code. He enjoys working with great, passionate teams that share common values and knowledge. Lucas is adaptive and well organized. He is constantly learning and expanding his skill set through different programming languages in his free time.
Portfolio
Experience
- Git - 8 years
- C - 5 years
- APIs - 5 years
- Back-end - 5 years
- Node.js - 3 years
- JavaScript - 3 years
- TypeScript - 3 years
- Web3.js - 2 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
Git, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Linux
The most amazing...
...experience I've had was creating a company and going through all the phases, from prototype to launching the product, after raising money from the investors.
Work Experience
CTO
Hashtagger
- Created the prototype and raised one million USD with my co-founder to develop the product.
- Developed the website, both the back end and smart contracts. We had a peak of one thousand concurrent users and fifty thousand users in total.
- Fetched data from Twitter and blockchain to provide useful insight for our product.
C Developer (Contractor)
Stormshield
- Added the support of a layer 2 protocol, an SCTP, to the company's firewall product.
- Implemented flux analysis to verify the RFC compliance.
- Participated in all team events, including user story creation, poker planning, retro planning, and onboarding and tutoring new team members.
- Did regression testing, functional testing, coverage, load testing, and forged network packets.
- Analyzed the concerned RFCs, approximately 4960, and developed proposals on which ones to support.
C Developer
Societe.com
- Created different services for the website with over one million daily hits.
- Participated in code reviews and tests for maintaining high code quality.
- Took the initiative to add static analysis to the codebase, implement efficient code, add error flags, and patch warning messages during downtime.
- Participated in GDPR compliance for documentation, access and removal of user info, and identification of personal data. Wrote a program for data anonymization.
- Made some minor modifications to the iOS base code using Objective-C.
- Parsed Apache log and did a crawler (libcurl) to analyze the source of traffic.
C++ Developer
Innixim
- Implemented image processing in C++ for the dental scanner from a prototype in Python/Matlab.
- Made small modifications to embedded code with Cypress USB and GUI.
- Documented the project using Doxygen in accordance with the ISO and medical norms.
- Implemented the requested features from the R&D team.
- Helped new developers and non-developers to understand the code. Modified and used Git.
Experience
School Projects
https://www.42.us.org/about/Mobile Wallet for Solana
It supports different languages and currencies. The app was developed for Android with React Native.
Education
Option E in Specialization in Entrepreneurship
ESCP Business School - Paris
Senior Certificate in Software Development
42 - Paris
Certifications
Node.js Development Bootcamp
Tortuga Coders
Digital Innovation for Business Certificate
HEC
Skills
Libraries/APIs
X (formerly Twitter) API, Node.js, Web3.js, Chai, Libusb, OpenCV, React
Tools
Git, Mongoose, NPM, GNU Debugger (GDB), Subversion (SVN), Visual Studio 2015
Languages
C, JavaScript, C++, TypeScript, Python, XML, Sh, Go, Solidity
Frameworks
Express.js, JSON Web Tokens (JWT)
Platforms
Linux, MongooseIM, FreeBSD, Web, Visual Studio Code (VS Code)
Storage
JSON, NoSQL, MongoDB, MySQL
Paradigms
REST, Scrum, Agile
Other
APIs, Software Development, Back-end, Data Structures, Debugging Tools, Scraping, Web Scraping, Clang, Full-stack, Business
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