Jean-francois Cloutier
Senior Software Engineer at SmartRent
Portland, Maine, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJean-francois Cloutier is a Senior Software Engineer with 11+ years of experience currently building firmware at SmartRent and running his own architecture consultancy, Collaboration Planners LLC. He has led engineering and architecture efforts across startups and enterprises—from CTO roles to chief architect positions—specializing in transforming vague ideas into production-ready systems. His background includes long-term work on semantic integration and collaboration-planning software as well as early large-scale object-oriented systems at Citicorp, reflecting deep systems thinking and pragmatic implementation. Beyond industry work he researches cognitive robotics and symbolic machine learning with the Active Inference Institute, bringing a research-driven perspective to product development. Based in Portland, Maine, he pairs hands-on firmware and backend expertise with a talent for working with people smarter than him and turning complex requirements into elegant designs. An avid Aikido practitioner and 2nd-degree black belt, he applies a disciplined, iterative approach to both engineering and training.
11 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Upper Canada CollegeM.Sc., Computer Science, M.Sc., Computer Science at McGill University
English, French
Github Skills (69)
webstorm10
intellij-plugin10
wifi-configuration10
elixir10
rubymine10
bugtracking10
elixir-mix10
appcode10
pycharm10
clion9
jetbrains9
phoenix-channels9
home-automation9
ide9
driver9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jfcloutier/karma_agency
Jul 2020 - Jul 2026
Contributions:290 pushes, 20 branches in 6 years 1 month
jfcloutier/robotex
Jun 2015 - Dec 2019
Contributions:100 commits, 97 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 7 months
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