Summary
Bertrand B is a Principal Software Engineer with 17 years of experience designing and operating high-traffic, cloud-native microservices on AWS and GCP. He helped three startups—AppDirect, Upgrade, and Sonder—scale into unicorns, and has consulted across domains from streaming and sound effects to payments and eCommerce. Deeply proficient in Java/Spring Boot and Python/Flask, he has built platforms handling 10K+ requests/sec with strong focus on scalability, performance, and reliability. Founder of a contracting practice and a proven remote engineer, he balances hands-on development with system architecture and Agile delivery. Trained in distributed systems (M.Sc., Université de Bordeaux) and data science, he brings both theoretical depth and pragmatic production experience. Based in Vancouver and open to remote roles, he combines startup grit with enterprise-grade engineering discipline.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
M. Sc. Networking Parallel and Distributed Systems, M. Sc. Networking Parallel and Distributed Systems at Université de Bordeaux
B. Sc Software Engineering Mathematics, B. Sc Software Engineering Mathematics at Pierre and Marie Curie University
Data Science, Data Science at IBM University of Big Data
French, English