Julian Pettit
Senior Software Engineer at Faire
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJulian Pettit is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building reliable, performance-focused systems across startups and enterprise teams. A Mechatronics Engineering graduate from the University of Waterloo, he blends hardware-aware thinking with full-stack software skills—shipping production services in C#, Python, JavaScript, and Terraform on AWS. His work ranges from developing an eye-tracking system with OpenCV to building an AWS Web Application Firewall and data-validation tooling that halved batch processing time, demonstrating a practical focus on scalability and operational efficiency. Comfortable in both product and infrastructure contexts, he has repeatedly delivered core API redesigns, automated testing improvements, and low-level embedded software. Based in Waterloo, Ontario, Julian brings a pragmatic, cross-disciplinary approach that often uncovers system-level optimizations others miss.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Ontario Secondary School Diploma, Ontario Secondary School Diploma at Port Perry High SchoolBachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Mechatronics Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Mechatronics Engineering at University of Waterloo
English, German, French
Github Skills (5)
dedicated-server8
dotnet7
mathematics5
automation4
python4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
j-pettit/pfinance
Feb 2021 - Oct 2021
Python financial mathematics library
Contributions:29 reviews, 91 commits, 30 PRs in 8 months
mathematicspython
j-pettit/useful-scripts
Oct 2020 - May 2021
Useful Scripts for Increased Productivity
Contributions:2 reviews, 45 commits, 23 PRs in 7 months
automationuseful-scriptsproductivity
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