Joel Langlois
Senior Software Developer at Wealthsimple
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Top SchoolJoel Langlois is a senior software developer with 13 years of experience building and leading cross-platform teams and shipping full-stack features across backend, frontend, and security domains. Currently at Wealthsimple after leading application security and AppSec engineering at Clio, he blends hands-on Rails/JS work with incident response, digital forensics, and bug-bounty program management. He has a strong history of technical leadership at product-driven companies like Prodigy and FreshBooks, where he guided platform migrations, rebuilt game engines, and launched large-scale SPAs and microservices. Joel mentors engineers at all levels, drives hiring and culture initiatives, and is comfortable alternating between individual contributor work and team strategy. Based in Calgary, he pairs pragmatic engineering with product-minded thinking and a knack for operationalizing security and observability. An early adopter of practical automation, he’s repeatedly turned one-off tooling into reusable internal platforms that accelerate delivery.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Mohawk College
Stackoverflow
69reputation
3kreached
2answers
2questions
Github Skills (121)
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jrlanglois/JRLCodingStandard
Sep 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:45 commits, 44 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
jrlanglois/FileModularizer
Apr 2013 - Feb 2016
Contributions:14 commits, 6 pushes in 2 years 10 months
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