Jerome Gagnon
Principal Engineer at Wealthsimple
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolJerome Gagnon is a Principal Engineer based in Montreal with 14 years building high-availability, data-driven systems spanning real-time streaming, search, and big-data platforms. He has led cross-functional teams and architected mission-critical infrastructure at companies like Wealthsimple and Paytm Labs, designing fraud and credit risk streaming platforms with Flink, Kafka, Kubernetes and multi-regional deployments serving millions of daily decisions. Known for turning research-grade data engineering into production-ready, auditable systems, he combines deep distributed-systems expertise (messaging, databases, retrieval) with hands-on platform work—Terraform, ArgoCD, ELK and Cassandra among them. Beyond architecture, he’s scaled recommendation and fraud engines that materially improved real-time decision accuracy and operational resilience, and he brings a practical talent for hiring and growing engineering capability in new offices.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Software engineering, Bachelor's degree Software engineering at École de technologie supérieureDEC Computer Science, DEC Computer Science at Collège François-Xavier-Garneau
French, English
Stackoverflow
135reputation
3kreached
1answer
3questions
Github Skills (92)
python10
sink10
sql10
java10
centos9
big-data9
ubuntu9
persistence9
ansible-role9
fedora9
logging9
kafka-connect9
scala9
kafka9
debian8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jgagnon1/dotfiles
Apr 2016 - Dec 2021
Contributions:14 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 9 months
jgagnon1/ansible-role-apache-kafka
Dec 2017 - Sep 2018
Ansible role to install Apache Kafka
Contributions:14 PRs, 35 pushes, 9 branches in 9 months
apache-kafkaansibleapacheansible-rolekafka
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