François Gagnon
Staff Software Engineer at Stripe
Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolFrançois Gagnon is a Staff Software Engineer based in Sherbrooke, Quebec, with a decade of experience building secure, scalable systems and leading cross-functional teams. He currently leads the Ledger Platform at Stripe, focusing on robust money-movement pipelines and platform onboarding that reconcile complex upstream models with downstream operational needs. Prior to Stripe he shaped architecture and scalability at Wolters Kluwer—driving Azure migrations, query and .NET optimizations, and infrastructure changes such as Redis and ProxySQL. François is hands-on with big-data stacks (Flink, Kafka, Hadoop, Spark, Iceberg) and routinely mentors engineers while owning reliability and security tradeoffs. Known for translating product roadmaps into pragmatic technical plans, he combines deep backend engineering with a strong operational sensibility. A Canadian-trained computer scientist, he brings a quiet focus on measurable performance improvements and scalable design.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Computer Science at Université de Sherbrooke
English, French
Github Skills (7)
javascript10
coveo10
search-ui10
ui-framework9
typescript9
documentation-generator2
generator2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
coveo/search-ui
May 2016 - Aug 2016
Coveo Search UI framework
Contributions:100 commits, 31 PRs, 74 pushes in 2 months
coveo-searchsearch-uiui-frameworkjavascriptjsui
coveord/typedoc
Jun 2016 - Aug 2016
Documentation generator for TypeScript projects.
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 month
documentation-generatorgeneratortypescript
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