Francis Hamel
Lead Software Developer at clicknpark
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolFrancis Hamel is a Lead Software Developer with nine years of experience building resilient backend systems and driving operational improvements across payments and observability platforms. He has led architecture and delivery efforts at Shopify—instrumenting internal tooling, migrating observability stacks, and building a Presto-powered engineering metrics pipeline—and later reduced cloud costs and introduced CI/CD and feature flags as a Senior Full Stack Developer at TaliPay. Now leading development at clicknpark, he blends hands-on implementation with mentoring and documentation to scale teams and systems. A Université de Sherbrooke computer science co-op alumnus based in Montreal, he’s comfortable across the stack and often focuses on pragmatic system observability and secure certificate management—work that quietly prevents downtime at scale.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science (COOP), Bachelor's degree Computer Science (COOP) at Université de SherbrookeDEC Computer Science Technology, DEC Computer Science Technology at CEGEP de Saint-Jérôme
English, French
Github Skills (32)
markdown10
linux10
knowledge-management10
vscode10
home-manager9
gleam9
rake8
nixos8
migration8
nix8
nixpkgs7
react7
planning7
obsidian6
activemodel6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
francishamel/nix-system
Nov 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:369 PRs, 250 pushes, 369 branches in 2 years 4 months
francishamel/exercism-solutions
Aug 2023 - Nov 2024
Contributions:105 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 2 months
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