Maxime Bélanger is a seasoned engineering leader with 11+ years building and scaling cloud-native platforms, now serving as Director of Engineering, Software Platform. He has led platform transformations at Dialogue and Shutterstock—migrating critical workloads to Kubernetes, implementing service meshes, and establishing CI/CD and observability standards to support millions of users. A pragmatic ESTJ, he combines strong process discipline with hands-on expertise in CI/CD, test automation, and SaaS vendor management (including multi-million-dollar budgets and contract negotiation). He’s driven cybersecurity and compliance initiatives (SOC2/ICFR) while automating access and deployment workflows to reduce manual toil. Known for turning legacy estates into automated, autonomous developer platforms, he also has deep roots in architecting large-scale SDKs and test automation programs from his CAE tenure. Based in Montreal, he favors experimentation over the status quo and thrives on complex integration and consolidation challenges.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Information Technology & Software, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Information Technology & Software at École de technologie supérieure
Computer Science Computer Science, Computer Science Computer Science at Cégep de Rimouski
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Maxime Bélanger - Director Of Engineering Software Platform