Maurice Kherlakian
CTO & Founding Engineer at Hookdeck
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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SeniorMaurice Kherlakian is a seasoned technology leader and founding CTO with 11+ years of experience building and scaling web platforms from Montreal. He blends hands-on expertise in PHP web development, systems administration, and DevOps with strategic product and team leadership across startups and established software firms. As CTO and founding engineer at Hookdeck and co-founder/advisor at DesignStripe, he focuses on reliable, scalable web applications and operational excellence. His background includes directing product and professional services teams at Perforce and Rogue Wave, giving him strong cross-functional experience in customer-facing technical solutions. Maurice is pragmatic about optimization and open source licensing—able to translate complex architecture and compliance needs into practical engineering roadmaps. Colleagues rely on him for both tactical problem-solving and long-term technical strategy.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
English, French, Arabic
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Github Skills (110)
php-library10
backend10
cli10
zend-server10
localtunnel10
localhost10
webhooks10
redux10
ngrok10
ai-agent9
sql9
ai9
database9
js9
rust9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
laardee/serverless-authentication-boilerplate
Jan 2020 - Apr 2024
Generic authentication boilerplate for Serverless framework
Contributions:2 PRs in 4 years 3 months
authenticationserverless-frameworkserverlessboilerplateoauth-provider
mkherlakian/bernard
Apr 2018 - Jun 2019
Bernard is a multi-backend PHP library for creating background jobs for later processing.
Contributions:4 pushes in 1 year 1 month
roadrunnerspiralphp81php8smarty
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