Gabriel Cardinal

Hello! 👋If I'm not battling snowdrifts or playing music, you'll find me deep in the code, weaving intricate webs of backend logic and frontend flair.

I have a real passion for creating top-notch quality software. An all green datadog dashboard or passing test suite is butter to my 🥐

I am always looking for new challenges and to wrap my head around new industries, let's get in touch!

Created distributed, scalable Web3 backend services, with emphasis on code quality control and performance monitoring
Wrote a token balance tracking system for the Solana blockchain for thousands of daily active users by refactoring the existing EVM-focused ecosystem
Wrote Solana staking balance tracking system using Solana blockchain RPC calls
Created backend image generation service for Opepens
Owned blockchain address label ingestion services
Created robust internal management tools

Created a data visualization tool for a graph database that allowed other developers to browse the whole game entity hierarchy database with
Developed backend services for an MMO video game using gRPC
Implemented CI/CD pipelines for complex, large scale monorepos
Developped the infrastructure and the foundational code for the Star Citizen launcher using Electron + React
Participated in the development of an online education platform.
Maintenance and replacement of legacy database synchronization system (MySQL, PHP)

Took part in the growth of Narcity from a startup to one of the leading publishers in Canada by creating efficient business processes automation
Implementing interactive features for Narcity end users such as signup, push notifications, content search, etc.
Gathering software requirements (UML)
Estimating workloads, poker planning and team velocity tracking
Participating in code reviews and peer programming sessions

Participating in the development of Narcity’s in-house CMS
Custom built a Websocket server with C#.NET Core to dispatch real time events from the CMS to thousands of end users
Created a service for article thumbnail generation with C#.NET Core, using System.Drawing;

Development of ERP system extensions and various web or native applications aimed at improving the business processes in the Microsoft ecosystem.