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Hi, I'm Dominique Degottex Fullstack Developer

Portrait of Dominique Degottex

I build products end to end, from APIs and databases to interfaces and deployment, and I'm now pointing that same fullstack lens at security: understanding how systems break, and building software that doesn't.

Selected Works

Magpie
Project / 01Product

Magpie

UserTour Kit
Project / 02Open Source

UserTour Kit

AstroCraft Themes
Project / 03Product

AstroCraft Themes

AstroCraft Editor
Project / 04Product

AstroCraft Editor

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  • “Years of building software teach you exactly how it fails. That's why I'm moving into security, from the builder's side of the table, where the fixes actually land.”

    Dominique Degottex,On the move to security

  • “Fullstack means I own the whole path a request travels, from the button a user taps to the query that touches the database. No handoffs means no seams for bugs or attackers to hide in.”

    Dominique Degottex,On fullstack work

  • “I'd rather ship something small that holds up than something impressive that doesn't. Every project I've published is still running, still maintained, still mine to fix.”

    Dominique Degottex,On shipping

WHAT I CAN HELP WITH

  • Fullstack Web Apps

  • APIs & Backends

  • Developer Tooling

  • Security & Hardening

My stack

  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • Go
  • Python
  • React
  • Next.js
  • Astro
  • Tailwind CSS
  • HTML5
  • Node.js
  • Wails
  • Figma
  • PostgreSQL
  • SQLite
  • Redis
  • Terraform
  • Bash
  • Linux
  • Ubuntu
  • GitHub

My Process

  1. Step 01

    Understand

    Before any code, we talk. What is the product actually for, who uses it, and what does the current solution get wrong. Most builds are won or lost in this first hour.

  2. Step 02

    Architect

    I come back with a technical position (stack, data model, boundaries), not ten safe options. One strong architecture we sharpen together beats a proposal you have to referee.

  3. Step 03

    Build

    Frontend, backend and infrastructure happen in the same hands, so nothing gets lost in a handoff. You see real, working software early and often, not slide decks.

  4. Step 04

    Ship & Harden

    We ship, measure, and refine, and I treat security as part of shipping, not a phase after it. The version that's live in six months matters more than the one that demoed well.

Blog

Notes on building and breaking the web, from a fullstack developer moving into security.

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FAQ

Questions I get asked, answered straight

Fullstack developer moving into security: how does that work?
I've spent my career building products end to end, which means I know how real systems are actually put together, and where they're usually weakest. I'm now deepening that with focused security work: secure coding, hardening, and understanding attacks from the builder's side of the table.
What does your stack look like?
TypeScript across the whole tree: Astro, React and Node on the front, Go for tooling and services, SQL and whatever datastore the problem actually calls for. The stack serves the problem; I'd rather learn the right tool than force the familiar one.
What kind of work are you looking for?
Fullstack product roles with a security mindset, or security-adjacent engineering where deep systems knowledge is the asset: application security, tooling, hardening. My portfolio and open-source work show what I ship.
Are you open to remote work?
Yes, remote-first, with a few hours of overlap with whatever timezone the team lives in. I keep async habits that make the distance a non-issue.
What have you shipped?
UserTour Kit, an open-source product-tour library; AstroCraft Themes and its live editor, which lets people build Astro sites visually. All of it is public, and the links are in the projects section.
What happens after something ships?
I stay reachable. The version that's live in six months matters more than the one that demoed well, so I'd rather be around for the fixes, the learnings and the hardening.

Let's build software that holds up.

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