Francois-xavier Darveau
Co-Founder at Willie
Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolFrancois-xavier Darveau is a seasoned software leader and founder with 14 years of experience building product-focused engineering teams and shipping production-grade systems. He co-founded Opfront (acquired 2019) and later helped scale Botpress from an NLP-focused startup into a widely used open developer stack for conversational AI, leading engineering and integrations for major platforms. Hands-on as a back-end and integrations engineer, he implemented and hardened connectors for Slack, Stripe and Google Calendar in the Botpress open-source hub for GPT/LLM agents. Based in Quebec, he blends deep technical craft—low-latency NLP and spectrophotometry prototype work—with strong product instincts and hiring/organizational leadership. Currently launching a new venture, he’s known for turning research-grade ideas into robust, developer-friendly products and for deprecating and modernizing legacy integrations to reduce technical debt.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's Degree Software Engineering, Engineer's Degree Software Engineering at Université LavalDEC Natural Sciences, DEC Natural Sciences at Cégep-de-Sainte-FoyComputer Science, Computer Science at Linköping UniversityCoursera School Plateform
French, English, Swedish, Spanish
Github Skills (20)
apim10
javascript10
integrate10
typescript10
intergration10
integrations10
agent10
api10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
chatbot10
slack9
nodejs9
oauth9
stripe8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
botpress/botpress
Oct 2018 - Oct 2022
The open-source hub to build & deploy GPT/LLM Agents ⚡️
Role in this project:
Back-end & Integration Engineer
Back-end & Integration EngineerContributions:53 releases, 979 reviews, 1767 commits in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Francois-xavier focused on implementing and improving integrations within the Botpress platform, specifically for Slack, Stripe, Google Calendar, and others. They implemented new features, like Slack DM interactions and listing active members, and addressed issues like missing events in the Stripe integration. The user also contributed to the overall platform by deprecating old integrations (DALL-E, Make.com) and enhancing the robustness of the integrations through configuration validation and OAuth updates.
nlupythonbotbotkitbotpress
mentum/challenges
Feb 2015 - Mar 2016
List of funny coding problems
Contributions:19 commits, 3 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year 1 month
leetcodeproblemsfunny-codingdata-structurescoding-problems
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