Mathieu Fortin
Sr. Principal Security Developer at Autodesk
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolMathieu Fortin is a Sr. Principal Security Developer based in Montreal with 20+ years of hands-on experience spanning Linux, Solaris, and Windows across web, telecom, banking and retail environments. He blends deep datacenter and networking expertise with cloud-native security automation, having built automated golden image pipelines for 100+ OS variants and integrated tools like InsightCloudSec and Prisma Cloud at scale. Known for shifting security left, he drives vulnerability scanning, rapid image rebuilds, endpoint remediation automation, and rigorous image hardening and testing. A practical engineer fluent in Python, Perl and shell scripting, he also contributes backend Spring Boot work involving message queues and retry logic on GitHub. Comfortable leading and mentoring cross-functional teams, Mathieu combines startup agility with enterprise-grade operational discipline to make systems measurably more secure and resilient.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Exit CertifiedDESS Technologie de l'Information, DESS Technologie de l'Information at École de technologie supérieureDiplome Etude Secondaire, Diplome Etude Secondaire at Collège Saint-Jean-VianneyDEC Electronics, DEC Electronics at CEGEP MaisonneuveCertificate Computer Science, Certificate Computer Science at UQAM | Université du Québec à Montréal
English, French
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Github Skills (12)
rabbitmq10
testing10
javas10
message-queue10
java10
spring-boot10
spring-cloud6
docx4j6
eclipse6
jar6
jvm6
applet6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
eugenp/tutorials
Feb 2020 - May 2020
Getting Started with Spring Boot 3:
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 10 PRs, 1 comment in 2 months
Contributions summary:Mathieu primarily contributed to Spring Boot projects, focusing on Java code related to message queues and retry mechanisms. They configured RabbitMQ queues, listeners, and interceptors for handling message retries with exponential backoff. The commits also included updates to test configurations and the addition of integration tests, demonstrating expertise in testing and debugging within the Spring ecosystem. Further work involved fixing tests and formatting code.
spring-bootspring-security-oauthsecurityauthenticationsecurity-oauth
mathieufortin01/tutorials
Jan 2020 - Oct 2020
Just Announced - "Learn Spring Security OAuth":
Contributions:18 pushes, 6 branches in 8 months
spring-bootspring-security-oauthsecurityauthenticationsecurity-oauth
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