Maude Lemaire is a software engineer and technical leader with 11 years of experience building scalable backend systems and performance infrastructure for large-scale SaaS products. She founded and led Slack’s backend performance infrastructure team, driving load-testing, continuous profiling, and performance regression monitoring that enabled onboarding of multi-million-dollar enterprises and scaling from tens of thousands to millions of users per tenant. Maude is the author of Refactoring at Scale and has a track record of guiding complex refactors and reliability-velocity tradeoffs while improving hiring, mentorship, and onboarding practices. More recently she contributed to GitHub projects like Copilot Code Review and domain isolation before joining Cursor, and serves on advisory and nonprofit boards, reflecting a blend of hands-on systems engineering and empathetic leadership. An avowed multi-modal engineer, she gravitate s toward flamegraphs in production and building strong engineering cultures off the clock.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree BSc. First Class Honours in Software Engineering; Minor in Hispanic Linguistics, Bachelor’s Degree BSc. First Class Honours in Software Engineering; Minor in Hispanic Linguistics at McGill University
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