Courtney Claessens
Senior Product Manager at GitHub
Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolCourtney Claessens is a Senior Product Manager with 13 years of experience building user-centered digital services, currently shaping product direction at GitHub after leading product teams at the Canadian Digital Service. She specializes in digital government and public-sector transformation, pairing a mapper’s attention to detail with a pragmatic focus on making people's days easier—users, teams, and communities of practice. Courtney has stepped into interim leadership roles and driven cross-disciplinary initiatives, blending product strategy with hands-on delivery from her earlier technical work at Esri. Based in Peterborough, Canada, she brings a public-service mindset to developer-focused products, quietly bridging civic impact and platform-scale product practices.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
General AssemblyHonours Bachelor of Arts, Honours Bachelor of Arts at McGill University
English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (134)
dependabot10
pnpm10
github10
python10
terraform10
exposure10
ruby10
security10
javascript10
rubygems10
dotnet10
code-security10
elm10
geographic10
rust10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
cds-snc/vac-find-benefits-and-services-documentation
Sep 2018 - Aug 2019
Companion documentation for VAC's Find benefits and services product
Contributions:12 PRs, 38 pushes, 4 branches in 11 months
internalbenefitscompanionfind-svac
courtneycl/monorepo
May 2022 - Dec 2022
Magnificent multiple-manifest monorepo.
Contributions:31 commits, 3 PRs, 47 pushes in 7 months
monorepomanifestmagnificentyarn-workspacestypescript
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