Summary
Jean Toussaint is a senior software engineer based in Gatineau, Canada, with over two decades of experience designing and delivering carrier-grade, high-availability embedded systems. He combines deep low-level expertise in device/board drivers, multi-core DSPs and hardware/software integration with broad protocol and real-time systems knowledge spanning SONET/SDH, TDM, Ethernet, ATM, LTE/WiMAX and more. Comfortable across UNIX/Linux/VxWorks environments and languages from assembler and C/C++ to Erlang and scripting, he has repeatedly led “release 1” projects and driven root-cause resolution in complex, multi-threaded architectures. At Ericsson and previously Nortel, he focused on performance-critical, fault-tolerant solutions while mentoring teams on architecture and practical implementation trade-offs. A trained electrical engineer (M.Sc.) who also engages with functional consulting and financial tooling on the side, he brings a rare blend of hardware intuition and systems-level software craftsmanship.
4 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
M. Sc., Electrical Engineering, M. Sc., Electrical Engineering at Université Laval