Marc Sanfaçon
CTO & Co-Founder at Coveo
Quebec, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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SeniorMarc Sanfaçon is a seasoned technology leader and co-founder with over three decades in software development and more than 25 years building and enabling high-performing engineering teams. As CTO and former SVP Technology at Coveo, he scaled R&D from a handful of engineers to 200+, drove the breakup of monoliths into microservices, and enabled over 1,000 deployments per month while overseeing cloud operations, FinOps, security and compliance (ISO-27001, SOC 2 Type 2, HIPAA). He blends hands-on systems and C/C++ roots with modern cloud architecture and DevOps practices, having led migrations from on‑premise to cloud-native platforms. A pragmatic coach and talent builder, he focuses on culture, leadership development and measurable efficiency improvements across product, infrastructure and security teams. His open-source contribution to improving cross-platform builds for pdf2htmlEX highlights an attention to portability and low-level platform nuances often invisible at the executive level. Based in Quebec, he sits on boards and continues to marry deep technical craftsmanship with strategic product impact.
14 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
French, English
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Github Skills (15)
mingw10
c-language10
cross-platform10
ws-api10
cprogramming-language10
winapi10
multiplatform10
wp-api10
fileio9
file-operations9
filesystem9
build-system9
jenkins6
unit-testing6
stdout6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
coolwanglu/pdf2htmlEX
Nov 2013 - Jan 2014
Convert PDF to HTML without losing text or format.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Marc primarily contributed to improving the build process and platform compatibility of the PDF to HTML conversion tool. They focused on making the project build and run correctly on the MinGW (Minimalist GNU for Windows) platform. Key changes include adapting code for Windows-specific functionalities, such as temporary directory creation and file system interactions. These modifications ensured the tool's functionality across different operating systems.
pdfconvert-pdftypesettinghtml-to-pdfcjk
jenkinsci/create-fingerprint-plugin
Nov 2011 - Jul 2012
A plugin to create a Fingerprint before the end of the build
Contributions:21 commits in 7 months
fingerprintplugin
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