Louis Van Craen
Senior Software Developer at Shopify
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolLouis Van Craen is a bilingual (French/English) senior software developer based in Montreal with 10 years of experience building full-stack systems in Node, React and Ruby on Rails. He blends hands-on engineering with technical leadership, having led small teams and driven delivery for health-tech and civic-data products, and now works at Shopify. Louis has deep experience in data pipelines and computational linguistics—recently managing an ML-driven SaaS to improve childhood literacy using LLMs and robust data workflows. He favors pragmatic architecture, CI/CD and developer ergonomics, often stepping in as maker, manager, or mentor to unblock teams. Outside product work he has built real-time validators and SDKs that streamline integrations, reflecting a preference for tooling that scales both code quality and developer productivity.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at McGill University
English, French
Github Skills (46)
aggregator9
forum9
react8
discourse8
gtfs8
storage8
web-application8
nodejs7
javascript7
aws-s37
ruby7
rails7
aws7
medical7
aws-amplify6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
TransitApp/gtfsNodeLib
Mar 2018 - Aug 2021
A Node.js librairie for GTFS
Contributions:23 PRs, 48 pushes, 23 branches in 3 years 5 months
node-jsnodejsgtfs
capable-health/capable-care-demo
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
Our React-based web application for demonstration purposes.
Contributions:151 reviews, 117 commits, 224 PRs in 5 months
reactweb-basedweb-applicationreactjsweb-based-application
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