Marc-antoine Ruel
Co-Founder at PitchPal App
Gatineau, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMarc-antoine Ruel is a seasoned engineering leader and founder with 17 years of experience building dependable, secure, AI-powered products and large-scale developer platforms. He combines deep system design and developer tooling expertise—honed at Google where he led massive CI and remote build execution efforts—with hands-on coding in Go and TypeScript and active open-source contributions like panicparse. Marc-antoine advises startups, invests as an angel, and runs consulting engagements that translate ambitious AI ideas into resilient, human-centered systems. He has shipped voice-enabled healthcare agents, coached founders on product clarity, and still writes production code daily while mentoring engineers into leadership. Based in Gatineau, Quebec, he’s proud to call one of Canada’s greenest cities home—celebrated for its abundant parks, riverfront trails, and strong commitment to preserving urban nature.
17 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Computer Engineering at Université de Sherbrooke
French, English
Github Skills (31)
json10
encrypt10
continuous-integration10
python10
apidoc10
cli-framework10
rsa10
crypt10
go10
api10
public-key-encryption10
encryption10
patch9
testing9
command-line-interface9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
rietveld-codereview/rietveld
Nov 2010 - Jan 2014
Code Review, hosted on Google App Engine
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:319 commits in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Marc-antoine primarily contributed to the back-end functionality, enhancing the /api/ interface to retrieve additional issue data and patchset information in JSON format. They added fields like `owner_email`, `base_url`, and `private` to issue data and incorporated try job results. Furthermore, the user made structural changes such as adding the ability to specify a base URL mapping and adding code to handle the generation of data for the /api/ patchset endpoint.
google-appapp-enginehostedreviewgoogle-app-engine
maruel/panicparse
Feb 2015 - Oct 2022
Crash your app in style (Golang)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 releases, 14 reviews, 371 commits in 7 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Marc-antoine contributed to the project by improving the functionality and maintainability of the Go codebase. Their work involved making sorting more deterministic, addressing signal handling, implementing code to handle file parsing, and refactoring code for better performance. They also addressed multiple issues related to stack trace analysis by resolving parsing issues and adding support for different Go module structures.
golangstack-tracespanicgo
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