Summary
Francis M is a Senior Software Engineer based in Montreal with a decade of experience building secure, high-performance systems and leading cross-functional teams. He excels at security engineering for platform and cloud-native environments, combining hands-on backend development with automation, observability (OpenTelemetry), and incident response tooling. His background spans government-grade cyberdefense with TS/TK clearance, startups where he led product-critical backends and serverless analytics, and consulting through his own security-focused services firm. Notable strengths include designing secure-by-default APIs, reducing operational costs and response times, and translating customer feedback into production-hardened features. He regularly bridges low-level systems work (C/C++, Rust) with higher-level services (C#, Java, serverless) to deliver auditable, scalable solutions. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic security trade-offs that improve user experience while minimizing risk.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Technical Degree Computer Science, Technical Degree Computer Science at Collège Lionel-Groulx
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Université de Sherbrooke
English, French, Dutch