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I'm a passionate software product engineer.
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About
Winfred Nadeau
Senior Software Engineer
@Aha! — the world's #1 product roadmap and marketing planning software.
I ship product fastest with
- Ruby/Rails
- React
- Postgres
- Sidekiq
- BEM CSS
I design product fastest with
- Sketch
- Invision Studio
- Paper
- A Strong Visual Archtitecture
I grow product fastest with
- SQL
- Optimizely
- Looker
- Heap
I relax fastest with
- Non-fiction
- Longboard
- Cats
- Family
- Meditation
Blog
Waxing poetic on matters pragmatic, a software, a product, a startup, a UX fanatic.
- 05 Feb 2018 » Scaling Design Changes
- 03 Feb 2016 » Content-first Product Development
- 15 Jan 2016 » JS Carousels Are For Selling Depth, Not Breadth
- 15 Oct 2015 » Product Engineering as a Discipline
- 15 Jul 2015 » Growth in Design Complexity
- 15 Apr 2015 » Avoiding Rabbit Holes With a Time-box of Focus
- 23 Sep 2014 » How do you want to grow?
- 20 Sep 2014 » Checking In
- 23 Aug 2014 » Going Global - Adding time-zone support to your rails app.
- 25 Apr 2014 » How I became the first hire at Hired
- 22 Mar 2014 » Taming a large STI table - descendants_describable.gem
- 17 Feb 2014 » reactor.gem
- 02 Aug 2012 » Javascript Function Wrapping
- 18 Jul 2012 » Introducing buffer.js
- 23 Apr 2012 » Introducing reticle.js
- 28 Mar 2012 » Has_Many Form Helper Select Magic
- 24 Mar 2012 » Unobtrusive Dot Hash Access
Open Source
- descendants_describable.gem
- A DSL for quickly modelling large sets of STI models with shared behaviors.
- reactor.gem
- A pub/sub layer for your ruby app
- wunderground.gem
- The ruby wrapper for the wunderground.com API.