Francois Rainville
President & CEO at Averna
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolFrancois Rainville is a veteran software entrepreneur and CEO with decades of experience scaling product-led technology businesses from start-up to global market leaders. Since joining Averna in 2012 he progressed from VP Sales & Marketing to President & CEO, helping grow revenue from $25M to over $95M, expanding global footprint and completing three international acquisitions. He previously founded and led category-defining companies in contact center and ad-tech that were acquired by major industry players, demonstrating a consistent track record of building and exiting valuable software businesses. A pragmatic, vision-driven operator, he combines technical roots (B.A. in Computer Science) with board and advisory experience across SaaS and test-solutions firms. Less obvious: his career blends hands-on product scaling with repeated successful M&A integration, making him as comfortable closing deals as aligning engineering and go-to-market teams.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Computer Sciences, Bachelor Computer Sciences at Université de MontréalDEC Sciences, DEC Sciences at Collège Jean de Brébeuf
French, English
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Github Skills (47)
fatfs10
bootloader9
firmware9
bluepill9
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3d-printing9
arduino9
esp329
hal8
dfu8
stlink8
measurement-protocol8
atmel8
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microchip7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Rotule666/rpi-taplist
Nov 2019 - Nov 2020
Contributions:1 release, 6 PRs, 31 pushes in 11 months
Rotule666/ArduinoPLCBlocks
Jan 2020 - Oct 2022
A Library containing function blocks typically found in PLC
Contributions:2 PRs, 14 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 9 months
arduinosiemensfsm-libraryplc
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