Francis Lacoste
Engineering Leadership Coach at Francis Lacoste - The VPE Coach
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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SeniorFrancis Lacoste is an engineering leadership coach with 13 years of technical and management experience, helping CTOs, VPEs, and Heads of Engineering at scaling startups build high-performance, values-driven teams. He leverages hands-on experience from building remote engineering organizations at Canonical, Heroku, and Salesforce to turn day-to-day pain points into practical leadership growth and cultural change. Known for blending compassionate leadership with business-savvy processes, he works 1:1 with leaders and runs team workshops to align strategy, hiring, and execution. Based in Montreal, he specializes in guiding technical leaders through the awkward transition from individual contributor to impactful people leader—often described by clients as clarifying ambiguity and making leadership learnable.
13 years of coding experience
French, English, Spanish
Github Skills (7)
scikit-learn10
pandas10
python10
numpy10
scikit10
testing9
test-automation8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
flacoste/prince
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
:crown: Python factor analysis library (PCA, CA, MCA, MFA, FAMD)
Contributions:10 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 2 months
crownpythonmcafactorfactor-analysis
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