David Chau
Developpeur Logiciel Principal at Upgrade, Inc.
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Chau is a Principal Software Engineer and seasoned team leader with 14 years of experience building and scaling internet-facing systems across North America and Europe. He progressed from hands-on development in large financial and media projects to engineering management and now principal-level delivery at Upgrade, demonstrating strength in continuous improvement and cross-functional team coaching. His background spans backend and DevOps practices, with deep familiarity in Java ecosystems and enterprise frameworks earned early in his career at firms like BNP Paribas and Atos. Known for blending technical rigor with people leadership, he has repeatedly led migrations, standardization efforts, and technical hiring initiatives. Based in Canada and holding a master’s in IT and Management from EFREI, he combines managerial insight with practical engineering discipline. Colleagues value him for turning complex legacy environments into maintainable platforms while keeping teams productive and aligned.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
master, IT and Management, master, IT and Management at EFREI - Grande école du numérique
English, French
Github Skills (13)
connectors10
fluent-interface8
grails-plugin8
preprocessor6
java6
bower5
yeoman-generator5
proxy4
css4
scaffold4
yeoman4
bootstrap4
generator3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
davidchau/generator-appdirect-connector
May 2017 - Apr 2018
yeoman generator to bootstrap an AppDirect Connector
Contributions:2 releases, 1 PR, 16 pushes in 11 months
scaffoldconnectoryeomanyeoman-generatorbootstrap
davidmarquis/grails-lesscss
Aug 2011 - Aug 2011
Grails plugin for LESS CSS pre-processor
Contributions:9 commits in 13 days
cssgrails-pluginpreprocessor
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