Summary
Jonathan Fokkan is a Senior Software Developer and technical leader with 11 years of experience building backend and distributed systems across startups and enterprise environments in Canada. He has progressed from full-stack and backend roles into architecture and tech lead positions, most recently joining Coveo after shaping platform and solution architecture at Alcumus and AppDirect. Skilled in Scala, Akka, Go, Docker and reactive systems, he brings hands-on delivery experience in CI/CD, containerization and resilient services. Notably, he led implementation projects ranging from an SDN appliance and update manager to benchmarking distributed databases for data warehousing, reflecting a strong systems-thinking mindset. Open to interesting challenges, he combines practical engineering with architecture-level decision making and a track record of scaling both teams and systems.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
DEC Pure and Applied Science, DEC Pure and Applied Science at Vanier College
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Honours Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Honours Software Engineering at McGill University
French, English, mauritian creole