Charles-alexandre Blais
Staff Software Developer - Lead at SSENSE
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolCharles-Alexandre Blais is a Staff Software Developer and technical lead with 11 years of experience building and modernizing large-scale, payment-focused microservices at SSENSE and earlier platforms at MindGeek. He combines hands-on engineering in TypeScript, PHP, Docker and AWS with a strong emphasis on DDD, SOLID principles and pragmatic architecture to reduce complexity while improving performance and developer velocity. Known for driving multi-phase modernization projects, he has designed and delivered new payment services, decommissioned legacy flows, and led cross-team integrations of payment processors. A fast learner and curious technologist, he obsessively tracks new frameworks, benchmarks and architectural patterns to inform practical trade-offs. Colleagues describe him as a determined team player who raises morale, mentors engineers, and prioritizes product quality over personal preference. Based in Montreal, he brings a rare mix of deep backend experience and cultural leadership that accelerates large engineering teams.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
DEC, Information Technology, DEC, Information Technology at Cégep de Saint-Jérôme
French, English
Github Skills (24)
jquery-plugin10
shiny10
php-framework10
php10
php-library10
typeahead9
autocomplete9
google-chrome-extension9
zooming9
autosuggest8
google-chrome8
chrome-extension8
javascript7
mouse7
chrome6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Phillaf/slack-cleverbot
Jan 2017 - Jul 2019
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 2 years 6 months
discordbotdiscord-bot
CaBz/the-button
Apr 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
buttonmonitoringmightyconsole
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