Etienne Berube
Software Engineer at PlanetScale
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolEtienne Berube is a software engineer with a decade of experience building and optimizing production infrastructure for high-performance consumer and platform products. He has shipped low-latency, scalable systems at Robinhood and Shopify and now focuses on orchestration at PlanetScale, bringing a strong grounding in distributed databases and operational reliability. Comfortable moving between production engineering and backend development, he has progressed from internships at Microsoft to senior infrastructure roles, demonstrating rapid technical growth and ownership. Based in Old Toronto, he blends rigorous computer engineering training from Concordia with hands-on experience across startups and large tech firms. Known for keeping products "fast and snappy," he pairs a performance-first mindset with pragmatic orchestration work that smooths complex deployments. A detail that often goes unnoticed: his background spans both product-facing performance tuning and behind-the-scenes platform orchestration, giving him a rare full-stack view of reliability.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree Computer Engineering, Engineer's degree Computer Engineering at Concordia UniversityDiplôme d'étude Collégial (DEC) Computer Science and Math, Diplôme d'étude Collégial (DEC) Computer Science and Math at Champlain College Saint-Lambert
French, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (52)
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json9
pdf-parser8
structured-data8
json-serialization8
messagepack8
bson8
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data-mining8
msgpack8
cbor8
json-patch7
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react7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
EtienneBerube/EtienneBerube
Jan 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
EtienneBerube/Computer-Science-and-Math
Mar 2017 - Jul 2018
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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