Louis-michel Couture
Senior Software Developer at Wealthsimple
Quebec, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolLouis-michel Couture is a senior software developer with 14 years of experience specializing in Ruby on Rails and backend engineering, currently shaping systems at Wealthsimple from Quebec. He combines hands-on coding with technical leadership—having led migrations, SOC2 readiness, cross-cloud integrations, and product transitions from B2C to B2B—while improving developer experience and internal tooling. A pragmatic collaborator, he guides technical decisions and communicates complex trade-offs to stakeholders and clients. Active in open source, he has contributed to rails/rails (ActiveRecord/ActiveModel) and to Trellis infrastructure, reflecting both framework-level and DevOps expertise. Colleagues know him for translating customer perspectives into product priorities and for quietly improving reliability and deployment workflows behind the scenes.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Web development, Web development at Cégep de Sainte-FoyLicences, Aircraft Pilot (Private), Licences, Aircraft Pilot (Private) at Grondair
French, English
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Github Skills (36)
ruby-rails10
mysql10
wordpress10
rails10
php10
ansible10
ansible-galaxy10
nginx10
vagrant10
ssl9
application-framework9
app-framework9
automation-testing9
automation9
automations9
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
roots/trellis
Apr 2015 - Feb 2019
WordPress LEMP stack with PHP 8.2, Composer, WP-CLI and more
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:16 commits, 19 PRs, 142 comments in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Louis-michel primarily focused on improving the Trellis WordPress stack's infrastructure and deployment capabilities. They implemented FastCGI caching, updated the nginx configuration, and integrated self-signed SSL certificate generation. Additionally, they modified the build process with absolute paths and improved the mysql role for idempotency. This work directly supports the stack's reliability, performance, and security, and ensures a more streamlined deployment process.
nginxnginx-wordpresscomposerclivagrant
rails/rails
Sep 2016 - Oct 2019
Ruby on Rails
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 5 commits, 6 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Louis-michel primarily focused on updating documentation and code related to Active Model Dirty and message verification within the Rails framework. They also updated MySQL-related documentation and links, demonstrating familiarity with database adapters. Further contributions involved ensuring the migration generator respects the primary key configuration for references, solidifying their work within the ActiveRecord component.
ruby-on-railsrailsframeworkrubymvc
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