Jacques Lalancette
Staff Customer Success Architect at GitHub
Chiyoda, Japan
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Top SchoolJacques Lalancette is a staff-level Customer Success Architect driving enterprise AI and developer tool adoption across Japan, partnering with the region’s largest companies to deploy GitHub Copilot, Copilot CLI and integrated generative AI workflows. With 18+ years in enterprise technology and 11 years of direct experience in the Japanese market, he blends solutions architecture, business value consulting and hands-on engineering to turn AI pilots into measurable ROI and scalable deployments. He has a track record of qualifying and structuring deals using MEDDPICC, building ROI/TCO frameworks, and influencing product direction through deep customer advocacy. Previously he led engineering teams and shipped production software—from Python API integration tooling to 3D visualization and nearest-neighbor algorithms for Toyota—bringing rare technical depth to presales and customer success. Fluent in English and Japanese, Jacques is equally comfortable aligning C-suite stakeholders and mentoring engineers through change management for enterprise LLM adoption.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate Level Japanese, Graduate Level Japanese at Middlebury CollegeJapanese, International Business, Japanese, International Business at Kansai Gaidai UniversityBA, Computer Science, Japanese, BA, Computer Science, Japanese at State University of New York at Albany
English, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (102)
github10
lua10
gpu10
rendering10
rust10
neovim-plugin10
github-issues10
neovim10
javascript9
phaser9
gdscript9
codeql9
mobile-web9
game-development9
canvas9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
jacola/dotfiles
Dec 2016 - Mar 2020
Contributions:56 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
the-dream-forge/yugen-saga-desktop
Feb 2023 - Feb 2025
Contributions:15 releases, 2 PRs, 39 pushes in 2 years
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