Marc-andré Bélanger
Staff Software Engineer at Vention
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolMarc-andré Bélanger is a seasoned CTO and full-stack engineer based in Montreal with 11 years of experience building reliable, maintainable systems across cloud and on-prem deployments. He specializes in implementations of dynamically typed languages and contributes to notable open-source work such as extending the Gambit Scheme implementation with Python-like SIX syntax and FFI enhancements. His background ranges from DevOps and microcontroller firmware (co-founding BLINX) to medical imaging platforms that handled tens of thousands of appointments and patient interactions, demonstrating both product and operational ownership. Marc-andré also teaches introductory programming at Université de Montréal and led development of codeBoot, including a Python-to-JavaScript compiler and browser-run interpreter, reflecting a focus on developer and learner tooling. He blends deep systems-level skills in C and Scheme with everyday productivity in Python and JavaScript, often tackling unconventional integrations like Python FFI for Scheme and LLM-driven tooling. Pragmatic and curious, he thrives on projects that cross research, education, and production engineering.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Informatique, Master's degree Informatique at Université de Montréal
Github Skills (4)
scheme10
python10
functional-programming8
compiler-design8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
gambit/gambit
Aug 2022 - Sep 2022
Gambit is an efficient implementation of the Scheme programming language.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 5 PRs, 19 comments in 5 days
Contributions summary:Marc-andré primarily focused on extending the Scheme programming language implementation, specifically enhancing the SIX reader with Python-like syntax. They prepared the SIX expander for Python syntax, developing features to translate SIX expressions into Python code. Their contributions involved modifying files related to input/output, the SIX expansion process, and the Python FFI to support the new Python syntax features.
programming-language
belmarca/gerbil
Oct 2019 - Apr 2020
Gerbil Scheme
Contributions:44 pushes, 14 branches in 6 months
schemegerbil
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