Mathieu D'amours
Co-Founder And CTO at Braver
Quebec, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolMathieu D'amours is a Co-Founder and CTO with 16 years of experience building full-stack products and rethinking legacy concepts into modern services. He combines hands-on engineering across Erlang/Elixir, Python, Dart/Flutter and TypeScript with strong DevOps and distributed database expertise to deliver scalable, user-focused systems. His background spans security orchestration, analytics-driven frontend work and AI/AIOps pipelines, informed by a solid foundation in science and neurobiology. A practical tinkerer and entrepreneur, he led core engineering at companies like FireEye and WHOOP before founding Braver, prioritizing interesting technical problems over pure commercial gain. He is an active open-source contributor — notably extending CoffeeScript’s compiler and parser to improve module imports and language features — showing a history of improving developer tooling. Based in Quebec, he marries product design sensibility with deep systems-level knowledge to ship usable, maintainable software.
16 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Baccalauréat Physique, Baccalauréat Physique at Université Laval
French, English
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Github Skills (21)
javascript10
compile-time10
coffeescript10
compilation10
parsing10
compile10
compiler10
text-parsing10
matplotlib9
scipy9
numpy9
python9
nodejs9
chat9
uikit6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
jashkenas/coffeescript
Mar 2010 - Mar 2010
Unfancy JavaScript
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits in 18 days
Contributions summary:Mathieu contributed significantly to the CoffeeScript project by implementing and extending core functionality related to code compilation and parsing. They added features that allowed for importing CoffeeScript modules within Node.js and made enhancements to the parser, including the addition of a currying operator and the flexibility of splats within function definitions and calls. Furthermore, they addressed a bug in the slicing functionality.
javascript
matehat/bpmn-js
Jun 2015 - Apr 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 9 months
renderermodelerbpmn
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