Alexandre Bourget
Co-Founder & CTO At Aviron AI at StreamingFast
Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexandre Bourget is a veteran software leader and entrepreneur with 18 years of experience building full-stack, data-driven systems and developer-focused products. As Co-Founder and CTO of StreamingFast (formerly dfuse) and now Aviron AI, he architected high-performance data access layers for blockchains and led teams shipping production-grade infrastructure and tooling. He blends deep Golang expertise, Kubernetes ops experience, and a strong open-source footprint—contributions span notable projects like goa, slack-go, and plotly.js—reflecting both backend protocol work and frontend data visualization. Alexandre is a restless builder who moves between hands-on coding and strategic product design, having also led data platform efforts at Intel Security and created a Bitcoin payment stack as an earlier CTO. A seasoned public speaker and community organizer (Golang Montreal), he values developer experience, pair programming, and storytelling as tools to scale engineering culture. Fun but telling detail: he started coding on paper in high school and now balances engineering life with a large family of nine children.
18 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bacc. Musique - Interpretation, Bacc. Musique - Interpretation at Université de Montréal
French, English
Github Skills (41)
asynchronous10
data-visualizations10
socket-io10
json10
javascript10
slack-api10
webdriver10
python10
apidoc10
api-design10
async10
charts10
data-visualisation10
swagger10
websocket10
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
abourget/gevent-socketio
Jan 2011 - Sep 2016
Official repository for gevent-socketio
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:156 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Alexandre primarily focused on improving the core functionality and stability of the gevent-socketio library. Their contributions included fixing JSON message decoding, improving the handling of socket writes, refining the JSONP transport, and adding features like the emit() function for event handling. The user also addressed several bugs and performance issues within the code base.
websocketsocketiogeventsocket-io
slack-go/slack
May 2015 - Oct 2021
Slack API in Go
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 4 PRs, 15 comments in 6 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Alexandre focused on improving the efficiency and functionality of the `slack-go/slack` library's websocket implementation. They refactored the event handling mechanism by optimizing the `callEvent` function and introduced new event types like `Disconnected`, `Reconnecting`, and `Connected`. The contributions involved restructuring the websocket connection management, including automatic reconnection capabilities, and the introduction of HTTP proxy support. Additionally, the user made significant changes to the code structure, including renaming methods, and moving around different files.
golangslackapislack-apigo
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