Web platforms
Performance-tuned marketing and product sites in Next.js. Fast paint, clean ergonomics, tasteful animation.
Nicolas Desjardins | Senior Web/backend developper
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Nicolas Desjardins
Senior Web/backend developper
I build web platforms, backend systems, and small things on the side.
Mostly TypeScript across the stack — Next.js on the front, Node on the back, and whatever databases, infrastructure, and oddball tooling the project asks for.
Now
Updated May 2026- Building this site in Next.js 16 with Turbopack — using framer-motion and GSAP for the animation feel.
- Going deeper on Drizzle for new backend work — favoring it over Prisma for projects with tighter constraints.
- Catching up on React Server Components patterns before pulling more of them into client projects.
- Tinkering with small CLIs in Bun, mostly for the single-binary deploys.
What I build
Backend systems
APIs, data layers, and integrations on Node and Cloud Run — designed to stay readable as they grow.
Tools & libraries
Internal tooling, DX scripts, and small helpers that pull repetitive work out of the loop.
Experiments
Side projects with no business reason to exist — built for the joy of figuring something out.
Skills
Grouped by how I use them. Five dots is a daily driver.
Languages
TypeScript
Primary language across front and back.
JavaScript
Years of muscle memory; still my second-nature read.
Node.js
Runtimes, APIs, scripts, glue code.
C#
Service work and integration scripts in past roles.
Frameworks & UI
Next.js
App Router, RSC, performance-tuned product and marketing sites.
React
Hooks-first, server components, careful about state shape.
Vue.js
Dashboards and component-driven UI systems.
Angular
Enterprise app architecture and module boundaries.
HTML + SCSS
Accessible markup and expressive styling with strong semantics.
Data & infra
Prisma
Type-safe data modeling and migrations.
Drizzle
Lean query layers; favoring it for new projects.
MySQL
Schema design and query tuning for growth-stage apps.
Firebase
Auth, Firestore, and quick-deploy serverless.
Cloud Run Functions
Low-ops compute for event-driven services.
GCP
Production deploys and basic observability.
Product tooling
Stripe
Checkout, subscriptions, webhook handling.
Mixpanel
Event taxonomies and funnels.
Google Tag Manager
Tag governance and rollout consistency.
Sanity
Structured content models and editorial flows.
Meta Pixel
Campaign tracking with privacy-aware rules.
Experience
2023 - Present
Senior Web/backend developper
Wellness Product Studio
- Rebuilt the marketing site in Next.js — got it noticeably faster and easier to extend.
- Wired up event tracking across GTM, Mixpanel, and paid channels with one shared schema.
- Built small reusable primitives the product and marketing teams use to spin up experiments.
2021 - 2023
Full-Stack Web Developer
Digital Product Team
- Moved legacy UI modules onto a typed component system; deletions were the deliverable.
- Built cloud functions and backend integrations for personalization flows.
- Set up CI checks for bundle size and accessibility so they stopped being optional.
2019 - 2021
Frontend Developer
Enterprise Software Division
- Shipped customer-facing UIs for internal and external operational tools.
- Paired with design and analytics so UI changes were grounded in what actually got used.
- Mentored junior developers through architecture conversations and code review.
Projects
Signal Commerce
A composable storefront toolkit with event-first analytics baked in from day one.
The fun part: getting the event schema and the cart state to share one source of truth so analytics never lied about what the UI did.
LaunchPulse
Campaign deployment system linking CMS content to conversion telemetry.
Built around the idea that marketers should ship a campaign without filing a developer ticket. Schema-driven content and safe defaults did the heavy lifting.
CloudOps Console
Unified dashboard for cloud service deploys and function releases.
Loved this one for the constraint: had to feel calm during incidents. Information density matters less than knowing where to look first.
Want to make something?
Send me a note. Always up to talk about web platforms, backends, side projects, or a thing you're stuck on.