Brice Sanchez is a Head of Engineering based in Quebec City with 14 years of hands-on experience delivering web applications and leading engineering teams. A Ruby on Rails specialist and AI enthusiast, he progressed from senior backend developer to principal and now leads engineering at Stamped Technologies, combining technical ownership with people leadership. He is an active open-source contributor to the Refinery CMS ecosystem, improving both admin UX and core caching/SEO features, showing attention to production reliability and content workflows. Trained originally in audiovisual and electrotechnical disciplines, he brings a pragmatic, multimedia-informed perspective to product engineering and cross-disciplinary collaboration. Colleagues value his mix of deep Rails expertise, full-stack contributions, and steady transition from builder to strategic engineering leader.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Brevet de Technicien Supérieur en Audiovisuel, Option image, Brevet de Technicien Supérieur en Audiovisuel, Option image at Studio M, Lyon, France
Diplôme du Baccalauréat Technologique, Génie Électrotechnique, Diplôme du Baccalauréat Technologique, Génie Électrotechnique at Lycée Martinière Monplaisir, Lyon, France
Contributions:66 commits, 28 PRs, 46 pushes in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Brice primarily focused on fixing and improving the existing blog engine for Refinery CMS. Their commits involved fixing specifications and addressing issues related to admin category controllers. The user's contributions extended to both front-end and back-end development, as evidenced by their work on specifications, controller helpers, and HTML markup improvements within the blog application. They also made adjustments to the blog post model, ensuring authors and usernames were correctly handled.
An extendable Ruby on Rails CMS that supports Rails 6.0+
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:1 review, 370 commits, 274 PRs in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Brice primarily contributed to the core functionalities of the Refinery CMS, focusing on improving the administration interface and page management. Their work included disabling Turbolinks for edit page links, enhancing the site bar's responsiveness, and adding features like defining slugs for page parts. Furthermore, the user made critical modifications to improve caching and ensure features such as meta descriptions and canonical URLs functioned correctly. The contributions encompassed changes to the core application views, models, and JavaScript files, demonstrating an understanding of Rails development.
ruby-on-railscmsrails-cmsrailsrefinery-cms
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Brice Sanchez - Head Of Engineering at Stamped Technologies