Maxime Fafard
Head Of Engineering at Palomar
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolMaxime Fafard is a pragmatic Head of Engineering with 11 years of experience building SaaS products and scaling early-stage startups from code to business outcomes. He blends hands-on full‑stack development—especially JavaScript and frontend architecture—with hiring, process design and strategic product decisions. As a founder and former VP/CTO, he’s comfortable making architectural tradeoffs, running devops on AWS, and participating in funding and board-level conversations. Maxime repeatedly drives cultural shifts toward sustainable codebases while remaining deeply involved in shipping features. Based in Montreal, he also brings an unexpected sideline as an investor in a specialty seafood venture, showing a taste for unconventional business experiments.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Computer Software Engineering at École de technologie supérieureDES, DES at Collège Saint-SacrementDEC Informatique de gestion, DEC Informatique de gestion at Cegep régional de lanaudière à Joliette
French, English
Stackoverflow
376reputation
130kreached
19answers
0questions
Github Skills (139)
material-ui10
javascript10
react-components10
rendering10
react-component10
virtualization10
ajax10
sqlite10
typescript10
microsoft-sql-server10
react-component-library10
user-interface10
listview10
material-design10
grid10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Sofdesk/loadconfig
Jun 2015 - Apr 2019
Configuration loader for teams
Contributions:2 releases, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 3 years 11 months
clienvironment-variablesconfigurationconfigloader
vizath/material-ui
Oct 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 64 pushes, 11 branches in 1 year 1 month
reactmaterialmaterial-designreact-componentsmaterial-ui
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