Michel Billard
Software Developer at Amilia
Blainville, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolMichel Billard is a seasoned software developer with 14 years of experience building web products from early HTML pages to scalable B2B and consumer marketplaces. He has played hands-on roles at startups and profitable SaaS companies—helping VarageSale scale through a major funding round and acquisition, and contributing to Aha!'s growth to triple-digit ARR—while mentoring and leading cross-functional teams. Comfortable across the full stack, Michel excels at rapid prototyping, experimenting with A/B tests, and turning product ideas into shipped features. He also brings product-oriented technical leadership as a former Technical Product Owner and engineering lead, bridging designers, PMs, QA and data teams. Based in Blainville, Quebec, he continues to iterate on side projects like Fez and Iron Clays, reflecting a persistent maker mindset beyond day-to-day work. Notably, his career began with manually maintaining tournament HTML pages—an early signal of pragmatic problem-solving that still informs his approach to shipping customer-focused software.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Product Management, Product Management at BrainStationBAC Software Engineering, BAC Software Engineering at Polytechnique Montréal
French, English
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Github contributions (5)
mbillard/fez_monolith
Apr 2012 - Mar 2015
Contributions:36 commits, 1 push, 2 branches in 2 years 11 months
mbillard/grid-framework
May 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:32 commits, 27 pushes, 2 branches in 11 months
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