Florent Monthel
Senior Director IT Manager at Arrowstreet Capital, Limited Partnership
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolFlorent Monthel is a seasoned IT leader with 11 years of experience managing cloud, CI/CD, desktop and shared engineering platforms across Montreal and Boston. Currently Senior Director IT Manager at Arrowstreet Capital, he leads 20 people across four teams and has a track record of scaling public cloud and infrastructure organizations through agile transformations. Previously he managed large IAS teams at Société Générale, coaching 35+ engineers, creating Scrum feature teams and driving storage, backup and cybersecurity product ownership. Hands-on background in SAN/NAS and storage engineering informs his strategic decisions, and he contributes to open-source—improving database performance and security in the popular Wekan kanban project. Known for bridging product, ops and engineering, he combines pragmatic technical fixes (like indexing and invite handling) with people-first coaching to deliver reliable platforms. Based in Montreal, he holds an engineering degree in computer science from UTC.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree Computer Science Engineering, Engineer's degree Computer Science Engineering at Université de Technologie de Compiègne (UTC)
Github Skills (9)
javascript10
back-end-development10
meteor9
mongodb-database9
mongodb9
kanban8
database-design8
performance-optimization8
realtime7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
wekan/wekan
Nov 2016 - Mar 2017
The Open Source kanban (built with Meteor). Keep variable/table/field names camelCase. For translations, only add Pull Request changes to wekan/i18n/en.i18n.json , other translations are done at https://app.transifex.com/wekan/wekan only.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Back-end Developer / Database EngineerContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 21 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Florent contributed to improving the database performance and security of the Wekan project. They implemented an index on the `cardId` field within the `Comments` collection to optimize query efficiency. The user also addressed a bug related to activity generation when removing a user from a board. Furthermore, the user made changes to handle user invites, ensuring emails are lower cased.
docker-imagemeteorsnapcraftjstreei18n-json
wekan/wekan-stats
Apr 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:18 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year 6 months
statisticspythonpython-scriptdashboardwekan
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