Christian Blais
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolChristian Blais is a seasoned software engineering leader with 15 years of experience building and scaling web platforms, having progressed from developer to Director of Engineering during a long tenure at Shopify. Based in Montreal, he combines hands-on Ruby on Rails and full-stack expertise with leadership in product-focused commerce solutions. His background includes system architecture work in simulation at CAE and healthcare platform development, reflecting comfort across regulated and high-availability domains. Known for pragmatic shipping—"Let me code you a web app"—he pairs practical implementation skills with team-building and delivery at scale. Notably, his career trajectory shows a rare blend of individual contributor craftsmanship and senior engineering management within a single major tech organization.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
DEI, High School, DEI, High School at École d'éducation internationale de St-HubertBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Software Engineering at Université du Québec à Montréal
French
Github Skills (113)
expressjs10
mvc10
payment-gateway10
abstraction10
ruby10
activerecord10
ruby-on-rails10
paypal10
javascript10
nodejs-server10
shopify-api10
payment-integration10
hotel-booking10
payment10
html10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
christianblais/Parcelify
Mar 2016 - Apr 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 186 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years
shippingshopify
christianblais/utilities
Feb 2011 - Jan 2013
Contributions:68 commits in 1 year 11 months
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