Brian Canzanella
Co-Founder, Senior Software Engineer at Proxon
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolBrian Canzanella is a senior full-stack software engineer and leader based in Montreal with over a decade of hands-on experience building developer-facing tools and production web applications. He has driven feature design and delivery across startups and large orgs, notably helping build and ship CodeStream (acquired by New Relic) and integrating observability directly into IDEs for millions of engineers. As an engineering manager and tech lead he blends customer-facing product work with mentorship, code review discipline, and pragmatic architecture across stacks including TypeScript/Node, C#, React, and cloud platforms. His background spans ecommerce, SaaS, and developer tooling, where he’s built integrations with VS Code, JetBrains, GitHub/GitLab, and enterprise messaging platforms. A former classical guitarist with graduate training, he brings a disciplined, creative perspective to engineering and collaboration. Currently at Vortex Software, he continues to pair product conversations with hands-on implementation to close the loop between users and code.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
B.M. Classical Guitar, B.M. Classical Guitar at University of HartfordM.M. Classical Guitar, M.M. Classical Guitar at Eastman School of Music
English, Spanish, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (87)
visual-studio-code-extension10
github10
trello10
firebase10
collaboration10
auth10
jetbrains10
editor10
code-review10
omnisharp10
electron10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
git-blame10
gitlab10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
bcanzanella/foo
Mar 2020 - Jul 2021
just some foo
Contributions:89 reviews, 246 PRs, 73 pushes in 1 year 3 months
foo
bcanzanella/vscode-openmatchingfiles
Dec 2017 - Dec 2022
Open Matching Files is a Visual Studio Code extension for opening files with the same name across many folders
Contributions:9 releases, 62 reviews, 32 commits in 5 years
visual-studio-code-extensionvisual-studio-codetypescript
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