Daniel Lavoie
Co-Founder at Platform Engineering Stealth Startup
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolDaniel Lavoie is a Co-Founder and seasoned platform engineer with 11 years building and operating distributed, cloud-native systems from Montreal. He pairs hands-on backend craftsmanship—contributions to notable open-source projects like Apache Pinot and Spring Cloud Netflix—with leadership roles across Platform, Cloud, and Solutions Engineering at startups and scale-ups. Daniel has deep practical experience in distributed OLAP/datastore integration, configuration refactoring, and resilience fixes, showing an eye for both architecture and brittle edge cases. His recent work spans building a stealth platform engineering startup after leading cloud engineering at Conduktor and StarTree, reflecting a shift from delivery to product-focused platform building. Comfortable in both customer-facing solution roles and low-level backend fixes, he bridges developer ergonomics and production reliability. Colocated in Montreal, he brings a pragmatic, test-driven approach and a knack for finding regressions others miss.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
AEC Programmation réseaux et télécommunications, AEC Programmation réseaux et télécommunications at Institut supérieur d’informatiqueCollège de Maisonneuve
French, English
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Github Skills (26)
apache-pinot10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
testing10
configuration-management10
java10
javas10
api10
spring-boot10
spring-cloud10
netflix9
forms9
spring-mvc9
spring-security9
feign9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
apache/pinot
May 2020 - Apr 2021
Apache Pinot - A realtime distributed OLAP datastore
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 9 commits, 10 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributed to the back-end of the Apache Pinot project. Their work includes fixing website links, adding configurable HTTP listeners for the controller API, and refactoring configurations. They also made updates to the internal testing framework and corrected a test, demonstrating an understanding of the project's architecture and configuration intricacies. Furthermore, they fixed a regression issue during configuration refactoring.
realtimedata-streamolapapachedatastore
spring-cloud/spring-cloud-netflix
May 2016 - Dec 2017
Integration with Netflix OSS components
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 13 PRs, 113 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributed to bug fixes and test updates within the Spring Cloud Netflix ecosystem. Their work included fixing unit tests for retry mechanisms, migrating tests to Spring Boot Test 1.4, and resolving issues related to security context propagation in Hystrix commands. The commits also involved addressing a regression in the Hystrix stream functionality and resolving issues related to the Turbine stream.
spring-bootnetflix-ossnetflixossnetflixoss
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