About Me
Engineering leader with 12+ years building and scaling high-performance teams. Proven track record in fintech, compliance (SOC2), and full-stack architecture. Experience growing engineering organizations from startup to scale-up environments.
EDUCATION
B.Eng. Software Engineering
École de Technologie Supérieure
2013 | Montreal, Canada
Technical College (DEC) - Computer Technology
Cégep de Sept-Îles
2009 | Sept-Îles, Canada
Links
Personal Website
https://pa.stjean.mePROJECTS
BlackboxDB.io (Sold)
Jan 2018 - June 2021
Québec, Canada
Built a passwordless nodejs & rust analytics solution to optimize water filters in the mining industry
TALKS
The Rust Programming Language
Cabane.io
October 2018
Microservices Without Interruption
Web à Québec
April 2017
WORK EXPERIENCE
Principal Engineer
March 2025 - August 2025
Pinata | Remote
- • Migrated Infrastructure resources from AWS to Cloudflare and Digital Ocean to reduce infrastructure cost by 50%
- • Introduced River a queing & job system to allow multiple job types, running in parallel
- • Added import mechanism from multiple IPFS provider allowing clients to migrate from Competitors
Principal Software Engineer & Information Security Officer
February 2023 - March 2025
Blissbook | Remote
- • Led security and engineering projects for HR software platform, achieving SOC 2 Type I and II certification in under 3 months
- • Architected and developed HR data synchronization system for organizations with 50k+ employees, supporting 50+ HR platforms
- • Decreased deployment time from 3 hours to under 15 minutes by implementing automated and simple CI/CD processes and optimizing software
- • Collaborated with the CEO to develop thorough security policies and compliance procedures
Lead Software Engineer - Infrastructure
October 2021 - October 2022
Baseten | Remote
- • Reduced AWS infrastructure costs by 60% through optimizing machine size, number of running instances and migrating to spot instance
- • Implemented OpenTelemetry observability stack and structured logging system platform-wide
- • Accelerated SOC2 certification by automating infrastructure, and implementing Drata
- • Managed Kubernetes-based application Python/Django platform for hosting AI models
Senior Software Developer & Site Reliability Engineer
February 2021 - October 2021
Braver Health | Quebec
- • Led Quebec health law accreditation projects
- • Designed and implemented services using Rust, Elixir, Python, and Flutter
- • Enhanced Google Cloud Platform and Kubernetes infrastructure
- • Put observability and alerting tools in place
- • Created an efficient incident response plan
Engineering Manager
August 2020 - February 2021
1Password | Remote
- • Received 'Security Employee of the Month' award for discover and address a CVE using typed Go
- • Led a team of 6 (3 Customer Support Level 3/4 and 3 Developers) in successfully integrating 1Password with Identity providers (Azure, Okta, etc.) via the SCIM protocol
Engineering Team Lead - Billing & Internationalization
September 2019 - August 2020
Pleo | Remote
- • Leading a team of 5, Project priorization and analysis, technical and non functional, 1 on 1s
- • Architecture of AWS & Google cloud based Financial software
- • Migration to new pricing plans, localization development
- • Lead the BI and analytics team for the Pleo product
Senior Software Engineer
September 2017 - September 2019
Pleo | Remote
- • Architected AWS/GCP-based financial software processing millions in transactions
- • Implemented synchronization with banking and credit card processing systems
- • Architected and improved scalability of fraud detection mechanism
- • Built analytics infrastructure supporting business intelligence initiatives
- • Scaled the platform from 15 to 400 employees while maintaining system reliability
Engineering Team Lead
January 2017 - September 2017
Coveo | Capitale-Nationale, Quebec, Canada
- • Lead the cloud infrastructure team (planification, one on one, ...)
- • Deployment of container clusters (Kubernetes)
- • Lead the infrastructure as code effort through all the company
- • Organize and participate in hackathons and conferences
- • Build Cloud infrastructure platform management software
- • Contibute to Kubernetes open-source project
Lab Teacher / Software Engineering Processes
September 2015 - May 2016
Université Laval | Capitale-Nationale, Quebec, Canada
- • Build a new practical lab on software engineering processes, based on Github, Travis-ci
- • Give lectures on software engineering processes in the industry
- • Help students with the laboratories
Software Developer
December 2014 - January 2017
Coveo | Capitale-Nationale, Quebec, Canada
- • Analytics backend developer, >2.5M events/day
- • Database Optimizations SQL(Redshift) Schema and queries
- • Implementation of Load balancing of Database clusters
- • Build automated Cloud infrastructure for demo environment (docker, consul & AWS)
- • Contibute to Kubernetes
- • Organize and participate in hackathons and conferences
- • Build front-end demos and applications using Coveo's platform