Jean-bernard Ratte
Director, Platform Engineering
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJean-bernard Ratte is a results-driven engineering leader with 13 years of experience architecting and scaling cloud platforms and teams from Montreal. Currently Director, Platform Engineering at CapIntel, he has a track record modernizing legacy systems into resilient, cost-efficient AWS architectures and driving CI/CD and SRE best practices across organizations. He has repeatedly led hiring and organizational redesign efforts—growing teams substantially at Shopify and Plusgrade—while reducing cloud costs (up to 50%) and operational toil through automation and platform improvements. Notable wins include cutting CI flakiness by 75%, increasing pipeline speed 5x, and preventing >$1M/year in revenue loss through improved support and observability. Pragmatic about trade-offs (“priorities are organized choices”), he blends hands-on platform engineering with strategic alignment to business goals. His background spans finance, SaaS, and streaming, giving him a rare mix of production reliability, developer productivity, and cost discipline.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Information Technology Engineering, Bachelor Information Technology Engineering at École de technologie supérieureApplied sciences, Applied sciences at Collège Lionel-Groulx
Github Skills (88)
terraform10
cloud-object-storage10
k8s10
kubernetes10
graph10
storage10
object-storage10
amazon-web-services10
driver10
aws10
amazon-s310
terraform-cloud9
hashicorp9
lambda9
vpc9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
nap/nap.github.io
Jul 2015 - Jun 2023
Contributions:16 pushes in 7 years 11 months
nap/franktats
Mar 2017 - Jun 2023
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 4 months
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