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David Leger

Software engineer with design and product sensibilities. I’m passionate about creating great experiences on the web.

Skills

Technologies

Languages, frameworks, and tools that I know exceptionally well

TypeScript
React
Terraform
CSS
HTML
Storybook
Testing Library

Specialties

Areas in which I have valuable domain knowledge and experience

Growth engineering
Design systems
Web accessibility & best practices
Testing methodologies (unit, E2E, VRT)
Remote communication

Work

Senior Software Engineer
Jan 2024 – Present
Kard
getkard.com (open in new tab)
- Rearchitecting Kard’s frontend to prioritize testability, simplified state management, and consistent design
- Led initiative to migrate Kard’s frontend codebase to TypeScript
- Core maintainer of Kard’s design system and component library
- Building and maintaining backend services and APIs in Node & Go with Postgres, MongoDB, and DynamoDB databases
- TypeScript
- Terraform
- React
- Tailwind
- Vite
- Vitest
Software Engineer, Growth
Jan 2021 – Dec 2023
Snyk
snyk.io (open in new tab)
- Helped establish growth engineering practices company-wide: A/B testing, data-driven decisions
- Built high-quality web experiences with a focus on performance and scalability
- Contributed to design system components and documentation
- Interviewed candidates and trained new team members
- TypeScript
- Vue
- Pinia
- Sass
- Storybook
- Testing Library
Software Engineer
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021
Manifold
acquired by Snyk
- Core author and maintainer of Manifold UI, a customer-facing Web Components library
- Improved organizational processes resulting in a 9% increase in engineering bandwidth
- Played a key role in Manifold’s adoption of GraphQL
- Interviewed candidates and trained new team members
- TypeScript
- React
- GraphQL
- Web Components
- Stencil.js
- Storybook

Education

Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering

May 2018

University of New Brunswick

unb.ca (open in new tab)