Eric St-jean
Principal Software Engineering Lead at Microsoft
Vaudreuil-Dorion, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolEric St-jean is a seasoned engineering leader with 19 years of experience building and scaling B2B SaaS and cloud infrastructure teams, now serving as Principal Software Engineering Lead at Microsoft. He has a proven track record as an architect and executive—leading engineering and services organizations across Canada, the US and EU at Canonical, Monetate, and as VP/CTO roles—bridging technical strategy, partner relations, and delivery for major public cloud platforms. Comfortable in both hands-on systems work and people management, he began his career in aerospace and space systems engineering, bringing rigorous systems thinking to software and cloud architectures. Eric has repeatedly operated at the intersection of product, sales, and services, enabling technical roadmaps that align with commercial outcomes. He is bilingual in North American and European engineering contexts and has experience jumpstarting local developer communities, reflecting a blend of technical depth and community-minded leadership. Based in Vaudreuil-Dorion, Quebec, he combines aerospace-trained discipline with modern cloud-native and open collaboration practices.
19 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
M.Eng. Aerospace Engineering, M.Eng. Aerospace Engineering at Polytechnique MontréalB.Eng. Aerospace Engineering, B.Eng. Aerospace Engineering at Carleton Universityhigh school, high school at Collège de Lévis
French
Github Skills (25)
user-friendly8
django-admin7
scalable6
translate6
django-project6
gettext5
git-clone5
translation5
django5
data-model4
api4
mercurial3
linux1
python1
security1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ecometrica/django-vcerver
Sep 2011 - Feb 2013
Contributions:8 commits in 1 year 5 months
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