Etienne Hardy
Principal Software Engineer - Technical Lead at AppDirect
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolEtienne Hardy is a Principal Software Engineer and technical lead based in Montreal with over 25 years of hands-on experience and more than a decade in senior engineering leadership roles shaping SaaS and security-focused platforms. He has progressed from developer to chief software architect, leading teams that built and operated enterprise e-signature and subscription management systems at OneSpan and AppDirect. Known for combining deep architectural judgment with day-to-day coding, he excels at guiding cross-functional teams through cloud-native migrations and scalable SaaS delivery. Comfortable as an agile coach and mentor, he brings practical experience across regulated industries—finance, insurance, telco, and healthcare—which informs his pragmatic approach to reliability and compliance. A Polytechnique Montréal-trained software engineer, he pairs long-term technical vision with a willingness to dive into implementation details when it matters most.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Software Engineering, Bachelor, Software Engineering at Polytechnique Montréal
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Github Skills (102)
apollo10
schema10
queue10
json10
java10
filter10
spring-boot10
spring10
graphql10
graphql-java10
scheduler9
micronaut9
charts9
redis-client9
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ehardy/dgs-framework
Jun 2022 - Jan 2024
GraphQL for Java with Spring Boot made easy.
Contributions:20 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 8 months
spring-bootspring-datagraphql-javaspringgraphql
ehardy/federation
Jan 2021 - Aug 2022
Apollo Federation
Contributions:5 pushes in 1 year 7 months
reactapollo-federationfederationgraphqlapollo-client
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