Adrien Poupa
Technical Lead at MaintainX
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolAdrien Poupa is a technical lead with 10 years of full-stack experience specializing in PHP, Laravel, JavaScript, and DevOps, currently leading platform and infrastructure efforts in Montreal. He has driven high-traffic e-commerce stability and performance improvements for Star Citizen, led migrations to Kubernetes with ArgoCD, and built on-demand test environments to accelerate delivery. Comfortable across backend, frontend and cloud, he pairs pragmatic engineering (PHP 7→8 migrations, static analysis, GraphQL) with hands-on DevOps expertise in Docker, AWS, CI/CD and Kustomize. Adrien is also an active open-source contributor — improving Cachet’s performance and refactoring Android music player internals — showing a habit of optimizing both code and developer experience. Educated in France and Canada (EFREI, Concordia), he enjoys tackling legacy strangler-pattern modernizations and building integrations that make data flow reliably between systems. Known for reducing pipeline times, fixing tenant discrepancies, and preferring measurable wins, he couples curiosity about new tech with a practical focus on shipping.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Software Engineering, Masters Software Engineering at Concordia UniversityPreparatory classes, Preparatory classes at Icam - Institut Catholique d'Arts et MétiersMasters Software Engineering, Masters Software Engineering at EFREI - Grande école du numériqueAsia Pacific University of Technology and Innovation (APU / APIIT)
French, English
Github Skills (20)
laravel-mix10
laravel10
java10
music-application10
javas10
php10
android10
player10
performance-tuning10
audio-player10
object-cache10
memory-cache10
web-cache10
database-optimization10
self-hosting9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
VinylMusicPlayer/VinylMusicPlayer
Dec 2017 - Jan 2022
A material designed music player for Android
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:33 releases, 90 reviews, 276 commits in 4 years
Contributions summary:Adrien's commits primarily focused on re-branding the Vinyl Music Player, making "pro" features free, and removing proprietary components. They made significant changes to the `MusicPlayerRemote.java` file, indicating involvement in the core music player functionality and service interactions. The user also made adjustments to UI elements, and updated dependencies within the project.
vinylmaterialandroidkotlinmaterial-design
cachethq/cachet
Dec 2018 - Jan 2019
🚦 Cachet, the open-source, self-hosted status page system.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 1 month
Contributions summary:Adrien focused on improving the performance and maintainability of the CachetHQ application. Their contributions included refactoring code to reduce database queries, specifically in components like the dashboard and incident pages. They also made minor adjustments related to StyleCI, documentation, and correcting typos, demonstrating a commitment to code quality and clear communication within the project. Furthermore, they implemented eager loading techniques to optimize data retrieval processes.
cachetphpstatuspageweb-applicationstatus
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