François Bernier
Senior Software Developer at Lightstep
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolFrançois Bernier is a senior software developer in Montreal with 15 years of experience building high-performance systems and distributed software, currently contributing at Lightstep. He specializes in systems programming, performance, security, and data structures, and spends most of his time in Rust, C, Erlang and Go while maintaining deep familiarity with many other languages. François is a pragmatic open-source contributor and lifelong learner who enjoys unpacking how computers work and applying that curiosity to tough technical challenges. His background spans startups and adtech to observability, reflecting a blend of hands-on engineering and product-minded impact. Notably, he once pivoted from strong Windows expertise to focus on modern, low-level tooling and concurrent systems.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
DEC, Computer Science, DEC, Computer Science at Cégep de Trois-Rivières
English, French
Stackoverflow
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16questions
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eclipse
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Github Skills (200)
toml10
encoder-decoder10
pihole10
base6210
marketplace10
neovim-plugin10
configurations10
eclipse10
rust10
parser10
lua10
mongodb-driver10
base3210
neovim10
api9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
fbernier/prezto
Mar 2015 - Feb 2021
Contributions:7 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years
fbernier/dotfiles
Feb 2012 - May 2022
Contributions:66 commits, 35 pushes, 2 branches in 10 years 4 months
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