Quentin McGaw 
I enjoy and master
- Go for backends & clis
- React + Typescript for
🌐 - Flutter (Dart) for
📱 +🖱
And I enjoy doing developer, QA, tester, designer, operator and cleaner.
Maniac things
I am not some psycho-maniac, except for a few points...
🚦 Testing + testable code✏️ linting🔒 Network security, I'lliptablesyou🏠 Self hosting everything〽️ Metrics and logs📃
Location
Links
📎 My updated resume🖱 Reddit✍️ Medium👔 LinkedIn
Work experience
| Where | Dates | What |
|---|---|---|
| DistrictM, Montreal | Since Jun'20 | Go in Ad tech |
| USA Today network (SweetIQ), Montreal | Feb-Jun'20 | ReactJS in newspapers |
| SweetIQ, Montreal | Sep'19 to Feb'20 | Go in places listing |
| Independent, Luxembourg | Aug'18 - Jul'19 | Go & ReactTS |
| Coinplus, Luxembourg | Apr'15 - Sep'16 | Python for Bitcoin and cryptography |
| STMicro, France | Jun-Sep'14 | C++ & Java for Android OS and app |
Studies
| Where | Dates | What |
|---|---|---|
| New York University (NYC) | Sep'16-May'18 | Masters in CS |
| Imperial College London | Sep'12-Jul'16 | Masters in EEE & Management |
Open source projects
Lazy here, see my Github
But there are multiple 1M+ downloads Docker images I made, mostly in Go.
Pickiness
I'm picky because I want my development experience to be
- I want a Linux OS for my work computer, Arch based ideally. No Windows and please no OSX at all.
🐳 I develop in Docker containers (literally, except Flutter for now), that's why Linux native performance is great❤️ Postgresql, Kubernetes, Docker, Grafana, Prometheus, Redis, Arch Linux, ZFS/BTRFS, SVGs & Inkscape, REST, GraphQL, GCP, VSCode, Drone CI🤔 I know a little and am curious about Rust, Hadoop/Pig/Hive/Impala, Ethereum Solidity, OpenCL/Cuda- I know but don't want to use: Java/C#
👹 , C++, Python, Nodejs, Scala, OSX, JQuery, Phonegap, Vagrant, Jenkins
Other
- I
🗣 French and English - I have 3 nationalities
- I studied some managerial courses: corporate finance, economics, UK accouting, project management, innovation management and entrepreneurship
- I got some Sololearn certificates
I obtained during my🚽 time
Random facts
- My favourite emoji is
👍 - My reverse proxy of choice is Caddy v2
- My Docker image of choice is Alpine or Scratch if possible (who needs a shell right?)
- I use Mosh
- I host my own 2 servers
- I learnt and forgot the Shrodinger equation
- I hate books I read in highscool
- I have a Raspberry Pi displaying Grafana charts