Summary
Letourneau Letourneau is a Senior Software Engineer in Vancouver with 13 years of experience building full‑stack web applications, data infrastructure, and scientific tooling. He’s worked across startups and large teams—from launching LOOM as the first engineering hire to shaping data analytics at jane.app and infrastructure and product systems at Etsy. Currently he builds advanced tooling for physicists designing NMR pulse sequences at Synex Medical, blending deep domain knowledge in physics and NMR with modern cloud and web stacks. His background includes computational biology, data science, and teaching complex algorithms, which helps him translate hard scientific problems into usable software. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who fosters inclusive, learning cultures and ships end‑to‑end solutions. Outside of engineering he brings a scientist’s curiosity (and the perspective of a dad) to every product challenge.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Theoretical Physics, Master of Science, Theoretical Physics at The University of Calgary
Hacking all the things, Web development, Hacking all the things, Web development at Recurse Center
Statistical mechanics, Mathematica programming, Statistical mechanics, Mathematica programming at New Kind of Science Summer School
Cannabis coaching certification, Cannabis coaching certification at Cannabis Coaching Institute
Bachelor of Science, Honors Physics, Bachelor of Science, Honors Physics at The University of British Columbia