François Dickey
Principal Architect at Solace
Gatineau, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolFrançois Dickey is a Principal Architect with over two decades of deep systems and software engineering experience, currently driving cloud-native messaging and broker deployments at Solace from Kubernetes to major public clouds. He blends hands-on C/C++ and Go systems work with platform-level architecture—having led container broker designs, HA for Solace Cloud, and performance prototypes that shifted the product from custom hardware to RDMA/NVMe-based off-the-shelf solutions. Comfortable across networking, telecom, and distributed systems, he has a history of refactoring multithreaded engines, building cross-language SDKs, and modernizing platforms with Docker, Kafka, and cloud orchestration. A practical troubleshooter, he routinely leads root-cause investigations in critical incidents and has contributed to niche open-source game-server tooling early in his GitHub work. Trained as a magna cum laude computer engineer, he pairs technical depth with a clear interest in mentorship and positive leadership as he moves toward broader management responsibilities.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering, Magna Cum Laude, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering, Magna Cum Laude at University of Ottawa
French, English
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Github Skills (11)
debug10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
server10
logic10
server-side10
lua9
kubernetes-helm6
jenkins6
kubernetes6
rancher6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
DarkstarProject/darkstar
Jan 2016 - Feb 2016
DEPRECATED - FFXI Server Emulator - See Project Topaz
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 4 PRs, 20 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:François primarily focused on fixing bugs and implementing features related to the Final Fantasy XI server emulator. Their contributions involved correcting issues with pet levels, resolving premature BCNM (Battlefield) endings, and addressing client CS (Cutscene) lockups. The user also merged branches and worked on updating or adding events related to quests, specifically for the Dancer job, and adjusting code to better suit quest flow.
emulatorffxiserver-emulatortopaz
dickeyf/cert-ca
Jan 2017 - May 2024
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 5 months
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