Benjamin Taillon

Experience

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  Cégep Garneau

  Jan 2017 - Jan 2018

  Tutor

  • Tutored and mentored 3 students in OOP I and II courses to improve conceptual understanding and academic performance.

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  Coveo

  Jan 2019 - Oct 2023

  • Developed and deployed the Coveo Headless web library serving as a stateful middle layer between UI elements and the enterprise Coveo SaaS search engine using Redux and Typescript.• Built and enhanced the Atomic web components library with Stencil and Typescript to create modern search experiences with more intelligent recommendations, customizable results, and a responsive interface on desktop and mobile devices.• Developed tooling and improved the CI for the ui-kit repository by automating versioning, writing custom scripts for commit specifications, parallelizing local builds, and shifting/parallelizing PR tasks from Jenkins to GitHub Actions. Show less • Built, tested, and implemented features and web components for the Coveo Search UI, including smart snippets to streamline answer generation to common queries, using Typescript, SASS, and Jasmine.• Improved the UX and increased platform utilization by proactively identifying and fixing issues with Internet Explorer compatibility, unexpected filter behaviors, analytics logging, accessibility, and vulnerable dependencies.• Developed infrastructure to enable the search UI and ui-kit repositories to push files to the CDN by generating AWS IAM keys with the least required permissions for an AWS S3 bucket and adding keys to Jenkins and Travis CI using Terraform. Show less

  • Software Developer - Developer Experience

    Jan 2021 - Oct 2023

  • Software Developer Intern - Developer Experience

    Jan 2019 - Jan 2021
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  The Home Depot

  Oct 2023 - now

  • Software Engineer

    Jan 2024 - now

  • Senior System Engineer

    Oct 2023 - Feb 2024