Chris Fournier
Staff Software Engineer at Reddit, Inc.
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolChris Fournier is a Staff Software Engineer in Ottawa with 16 years of experience leading data and production engineering teams at high-scale companies including Reddit and Shopify. He blends deep Python and Kubernetes expertise with a Unix-philosophy approach to build reliable, maintainable data and NLP pipelines. Comfortable as both a technical and people lead, he has progressed from research programming to managing and shaping engineering orgs while staying hands-on with systems and tooling. Chris is also an advocate for mental health in tech, bringing a human-centered perspective to team culture and engineering practices.
16 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
M.A.Sc., M.A.Sc. at University of Ottawa / Université d'OttawaB.Eng., B.Eng. at Carleton University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (86)
highlighting10
backend10
solr10
lucene10
information-retrieval10
java10
psql10
multi-user10
querying10
nosql9
python-development9
database9
cli9
nlp9
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cfournie/segmentation.corpora
Apr 2012 - Jun 2013
Contributions:23 commits in 1 year 2 months
Shopify/pyoozie
Feb 2017 - Jul 2019
Library for querying and scheduling with Apache Oozie
Contributions:1 release, 151 commits, 87 PRs in 2 years 5 months
schedulingqueryingapachejavaoozie
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