Matthew Fortier
Senior Software Engineer at Practice with Joy
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Fortier is a senior software engineer and researcher with nine years' experience building scalable ML systems, data pipelines, and distributed infrastructure across academia, government, and edtech. He holds a research Master's from Mila/Polytechnique Montréal and published multimodal carbon-flux work at ICLR 2025 after modernizing climate-model tooling for government clients. At Varsity Tutors he delivered production matching models, ETL architectures, and cloud-first monitoring; more recently he led geospatial ML research and agentic LLM work as a visiting researcher. Based in Edmonton, he blends hands-on production engineering with deep learning research, and off-hours he designs and fabricates custom mechanical keyboards and prototypes solo games—evidence of a maker’s approach to system design and reproducibility.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Research Master's, Computer Engineering, Research Master's, Computer Engineering at Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence InstituteBachelor's degree, Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering at University of Victoria
Github Skills (16)
environmental8
ministry7
energy7
ml-project6
twisted5
epic5
java4
python4
imagery3
nodejs2
angular2
machine-learning2
microservices2
artificial-intelligence1
openshift1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mjfortier/mem-admin
Jan 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:55 pushes, 19 branches in 3 months
emprministryenergymines
mjfortier/esm-server
Jan 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:24 pushes, 20 branches in 3 months
assessmentenvironmental
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