Julien Vermette
Principal Software Engineer at Chainguard
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolJulien Vermette is a Principal Software Engineer based in Montreal with 8 years of professional experience building production-grade systems across Google, Microsoft, and Chainguard. He combines deep platform and infrastructure expertise with a creative, multimedia sensibility—describing himself as a developer, multimedia artist, and “sound fiddler” who keeps learning. At Chainguard he’s advanced from Staff to Principal roles, focusing on secure, supply-chain-aware software in the cloud-native space. His tenure at major tech firms reflects a track record of shipping scalable engineering solutions and mentoring teams through complex architectural shifts. Julien’s background in computer engineering from Polytechnique Montréal pairs practical rigor with a curiosity-driven approach to tooling and developer experience. Colleagues know him for blending technical leadership with unconventional creative pursuits that inform pragmatic, user-focused designs.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Computer Science at Polytechnique Montréal
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Github Skills (16)
daisy9
midi9
faust8
audio8
hardware8
embedded7
html6
css6
google-chrome6
osc6
python3
music2
exp2
opengl1
pager1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Xmodal/autonomX
Jun 2020 - Oct 2021
Experiment with life-like processes to generate dynamic, emergent and self-organizing patterns and output these patterns via OSC.
Contributions:1 release, 27 reviews, 330 commits in 1 year 4 months
emergentoscpatternslifeorganizing
netherwaves/netherwaves-upptime
Oct 2024 - Apr 2025
Contributions:504 pushes, 2 branches, 2 comments in 5 months
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