Maxime Coulombe
Member Of Technical Staff at Tailscale
Quebec, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolMaxime Coulombe is a cloud-focused software engineer with three years of professional experience and a strong track record at companies like HashiCorp and Tailscale, where he ships backend and infrastructure work that improves developer and user experience. He blends backend development, DevOps practices, and product-minded project leadership—previously transitioning from engineering to technical product management at Coveo before returning to deep technical roles. An active contributor to HashiCorp Vault, he has improved CLI ergonomics and expanded the plugin ecosystem (including Redis ElastiCache and database plugin prep), demonstrating attention to both usability and extensibility. Based in Quebec City, he pairs a computer engineering degree from Université Laval with hands-on experience building secure, cloud-native systems that prioritize operational simplicity.
4 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree in computer engineering Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree in computer engineering Computer Engineering at Université LavalSciences nature - Profil Environnement Vie et Santé Sciences, Sciences nature - Profil Environnement Vie et Santé Sciences at Cégep Sainte-Foy
English, French
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Github Skills (10)
secret-management10
command-line-interface10
secrets-manager10
go10
vault10
command-line10
cli10
plugin-development9
kubernetes6
amazon-web-services6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/vault
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
A tool for secrets management, encryption as a service, and privileged access management
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:134 reviews, 22 commits, 105 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Maxime primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Vault project, focusing on enhancing the command-line interface, adding features, and improving plugin capabilities. They implemented a utility method for command-line argument parsing and added filtering for global flags to improve user experience. The user also worked on preparing database plugin support and expanding the plugin ecosystem by incorporating the Redis Elasticache plugin.
access-managementencryptionvaultgosecrets
coulombe-corp/hvs-hackweek
May 2024 - Sep 2024
Contributions:45 pushes in 3 months
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