Benjamin Boudreau
Founding Engineer at Keycard Labs
Gatineau, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolBenjamin Boudreau is a founding engineer and seasoned software professional with 15+ years building cloud-native platforms, billing and identity systems, and developer-facing marketplaces. He’s shipped foundational services at HashiCorp (billing, identity, managed Consul), led platform architecture at Qlik, and moved quickly from technical lead roles into startup-building as a founder. Equally comfortable in backend, DevOps, and system design, he has hands-on experience with Kubernetes, serverless AI workloads, and scalable microservices while maintaining a strong emphasis on quality and reliability. An active open-source contributor, he has improved developer tooling like the popular oh-my-zsh project, reflecting a practical focus on productivity and ergonomics. Based in Gatineau, Canada, Benjamin combines deep technical leadership with a knack for turning high-stakes product requirements into elegant, production-ready systems.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Computer science, Bachelor Computer science at Université de SherbrookeCollege Computer Science, College Computer Science at Cégep de St-Jean-sur-richelieu
French, English
Github Skills (11)
shell10
zsh10
plugin10
cli10
debian9
archlinux9
pacman8
bash7
automation6
automations6
automation-testing6
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh
Jul 2011 - Nov 2011
🙃 A delightful community-driven (with 2,500+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 300+ optional plugins (rails, git, macOS, hub, docker, homebrew, node, php, python, etc), 140+ themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:5 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin contributed to the oh-my-zsh project by adding and modifying zsh plugin functionality. They added an Archlinux plugin with aliases and functions for package management. The user fixed a typo and added a utility method to the `spectrum.zsh` file. Further, the user modified the Archlinux plugin and added functionality to the Debian plugin.
dockermacosphppythonrails
seriousben/gopher-whoami
Feb 2019 - Sep 2022
A simple gopher (RFC 1436) server
Contributions:1 review, 7 PRs, 9 pushes in 3 years 6 months
golangmultiplexergophergorfc
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