Eric Poitras
Head Of Engineering at Empego Technologies
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Poitras is a Head of Engineering and hands-on full stack leader with 11 years of professional software experience and a multi-decade engineering background, now building modern pharmacy platforms in Montreal. He combines deep backend expertise in Scala, Akka, Java and Spring with practical front-end and DevOps skills in Node.js, React, Kubernetes and AWS, and champions TDD, code reviews and continuous improvement. Across roles from staff and principal developer to team lead, he has driven architecture changes, CI/CD rewrites, serverless migrations and secure payment integrations that reduced deployment times and lowered total cost of ownership. He has significant IIoT and edge computing experience, designing Kubernetes-based edge platforms and addressing complex OT/IT security and resiliency needs. Known as a mentor who elevates junior engineers, he also writes SDKs and automation to make platforms easier to extend and operate. Practical, quality-driven and comfortable at the intersection of product, security and cloud, he thrives on solving messy real-world engineering problems.
11 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
DEC Informatique Computer Science, DEC Informatique Computer Science at Cégep de Lanaudière
French, English
Github Skills (144)
messaging10
identity10
authentication10
security10
svg10
openid-provider10
faunadb10
oauth-provider10
streaming10
client-library10
hydra10
charts10
api10
openid-connect10
oauth2-client10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
dbrain-org/data
Jan 2015 - Mar 2018
Contributions:1 release, 71 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 3 months
funlogic-io/zwave-serialapi
Oct 2019 - Jul 2021
NodeJS implementation of the Z-Wave Serial API used to communicate with Z-Sticks
Contributions:3 PRs, 58 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 9 months
apiserialcommunicatecommunicationwave
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