Summary
Arlen Stalwick is a seasoned engineering leader and VP of Engineering based in Montreal with two decades of hands-on software and systems experience and 13 years in senior technical roles. He excels at scaling teams and platforms—growing Wavo’s engineering org from a single engineer into a 23-person department while architecting a data platform that processes hundreds of millions of rows per day. Comfortable across the full stack, Arlen blends strategy, architecture and execution, having delivered a SaaS analytics product from concept to enterprise deployment in under a year. He pairs deep technical chops (C++, Python, Node.js, AWS, Spark, Postgres, GraphQL) with a talent for hiring, mentoring and formalizing processes as startups mature. Less obvious: he has repeatedly been the first or early full-time engineer at multiple companies, building cloud-native services and innovative file formats long before mainstream adoption.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BA Sociology, BA Sociology at Concordia University
BSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at University of Regina
English, French