Jesse Plamondon-willard
Technical Team Lead at MEDFAR Clinical Solutions
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJesse Plamondon-willard is a Senior Software Engineer with 16 years of experience building resilient backend systems, platform tooling, and distributed cloud infrastructure from startup to enterprise. Based in Montreal, he specializes in .NET/C#, SQL, JavaScript, AWS, CI/CD and automation, and led zero-downtime migrations of large ecosystems (Framework→modern .NET and network disks→distributed blob storage) while improving performance and security. A pragmatic technical lead, Jesse drives cross-cutting improvements like AI guardrails, release management, and developer workflows, and has repeatedly moved from zero-knowledge to team lead early in his roles. He is an active open-source maintainer—most notably of SMAPI for Stardew Valley used by millions—and contributes to core .NET projects like FluentMigrator, showing a mix of production-grade engineering and community impact. Notably, he balances commercial product work with ongoing game development contributions (ConcernedApe), demonstrating unusual breadth between enterprise platforms and hobbyist/modding ecosystems.
16 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
DEC, Publication Design & Hypermedia Technologies, DEC, Publication Design & Hypermedia Technologies at CEGEP - John Abbott College
English, French
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Github Skills (27)
maintenance10
c-language10
aspnet-web-api10
build-system10
c-programming10
compatibility10
sql10
dotnet-core10
fluentmigrator10
csharp10
cprogramming-language10
dotnet9
unit-testing9
net9
nunit9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
spacechase0/StardewValleyMods
Oct 2017 - Jan 2022
New home for my stardew valley mod source code
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:73 reviews, 928 commits, 92 PRs in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jesse appears to have been focused on refactoring and fixing compatibility issues in the Stardew Valley mod codebase. Specifically, they addressed a 64-bit compatibility problem by modifying the project files, which indicates work related to code maintenance and build system modifications. Additionally, they made changes to several .csproj files, suggesting involvement in the overall structure and dependencies of different mod components. The modifications, though minor, are critical for the project's functionality and are likely a significant part of their contributions.
modstardewmoddingvalley
fluentmigrator/fluentmigrator
Jan 2012 - Dec 2012
Fluent migrations framework for .NET
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Jesse primarily contributed to the FluentMigrator project by adding and modifying code related to the application context feature, allowing for the passing of arbitrary data to migrations. This involved changes to the core migration runner, context, and base migration classes. Additionally, they added a unit test to verify the correct propagation of this application context across different parts of the migration process and addressed an issue regarding escaping of default constraint names.
sqlserverormsql-serverredshiftfluentmigrator
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