Max St-onge
Staff Developer at Shopify
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMax St-onge is a Staff Developer based in Montreal with 11 years of experience building resilient backend systems at Shopify, where he progressed from Software Developer to Staff Developer. He has hands-on expertise improving fault-tolerance and observability in open-source tooling—contributing to Shopify’s widely used semian library by adding gRPC support, resource timeouts, enhanced circuit breaker instrumentation, and flaky-test fixes. Comfortable across operations and development, his background includes network/system administration, intrusion detection work with OSsec and Puppet, and on-the-ground IT support roles that inform his pragmatic approach to reliability. In parallel he manages projects at DreamHack Canada, bringing product coordination experience to technical initiatives and a knack for translating operational constraints into stable, debuggable systems.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Information Technology, Bachelor's degree, Information Technology at École de technologie supérieureCollege ChampagneurDEC, Network and System Administration/Administrator, DEC, Network and System Administration/Administrator at College Ahuntsic
French, English
Github Skills (7)
testing10
ruby10
circuit-breaker10
resiliency10
grpc9
backend9
develop9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/semian
Sep 2018 - Feb 2019
:monkey: Resiliency toolkit for Ruby for failing fast
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 54 commits, 24 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Max primarily focused on improving the resilience of the Ruby-based `semian` library. Their work included fixing flaky tests, adding logging capabilities for debugging, and enhancing the `net_http` adapter by introducing resource timeouts. They also implemented gRPC adapter support and made improvements to the circuit breaker functionality, including error handling and instrumentation, while also increasing the version to `0.8.8`.
circuit-breakerwebscalerailsresiliencymonkey
max611/CS-GO-Observer-Custom-HUD
Nov 2019 - Sep 2024
Contributions:4 PRs, 8 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 10 months
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