Andrés Fortier
Engineering Manager at Canals AI
Municipio de San Martín de los Andes, Neuquén Province, Argentina
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Top SchoolAndrés Fortier is an engineering manager with 11 years of hands-on software experience and a strong computer science and research background, now leading engineering at Canals AI after driving product and technical strategy at Facet. He excels at shipping generative-AI powered products and real-time browser rendering systems, having architected a custom non-destructive image editor and led distributed ML service work. Comfortable wearing many hats in early-stage startups, he combines product-minded pragmatism with deep technical ownership—from auth and billing migrations to performance instrumentation and QA practices that measurably reduced bugs. He has a track record of growing and structuring teams, defining career ladders, and institutionalizing hackweeks to spark innovation and retention. A former university professor and long-time remote worker since 2011, Andrés brings rare academic rigor to practical product delivery. Based in San Martín de los Andes, Argentina, he pairs systems-level thinking with a knack for turning research ideas into investor-attractive MVPs.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Electronics Technician High School Degree, Electronics Technician High School Degree at ENET N°4First Certificate in English, First Certificate in English at University of CambridgeBachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at Universidad Nacional de La Plata
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (90)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
basicNew/rodi-binary-protocol
Sep 2015 - Nov 2017
Contributions:3 PRs, 6 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 2 months
rodiremotelybinary-protocol
basicNew/scripts
Nov 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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