Michel Boudreau
Chief Technology Officer at Enigma Enterprises
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolMichel Boudreau is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 15+ years building resilient, developer-friendly systems across startups and large enterprises. He blends hands-on full‑stack engineering (TypeScript, React/Angular, Node, Java, AWS/Lambda) with strong delivery practice expertise—contract testing evangelist (Pact) and a Top 3% StackOverflow contributor. Michel has led platform and culture change at companies like Atlassian, SEEK and EnergyAustralia, shipping measurable product improvements (e.g., a 27% uplift in job ad completion) while dramatically speeding build/test pipelines. He’s an entrepreneur who founded multiple startups and runs R&D through Enigma Enterprises, pairing product intuition with practical architecture and DevOps automation. Active in open-source and integrations (notably contributions to GitHub-for-Jira and build tooling for Lesshat), he focuses on developer experience and reliable release strategies that scale teams as well as systems. Based in Melbourne yet forged in Canada, he brings a pragmatic, people-first approach to solving complex engineering problems.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree Web Development, Associate's degree Web Development at Willis College
English, French, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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705answers
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apache-flex
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actionscript
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Github Skills (24)
apim10
javascript10
jira-integration10
github10
actionscript10
gruntjs10
automation10
api10
apache-flex10
g10
build-tools10
automations10
nodejs10
oauth10
testing9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
atlassian/github-for-jira
May 2021 - Jan 2023
DEPRECATED (moved to private repository) - Connect your code with your project management in Jira
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1674 reviews, 407 commits, 412 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Michel primarily contributed to the development of the GitHub for Jira application, focusing on OAuth authentication and integrating the application with the Jira platform. Their work involved implementing and fixing post-login redirects, along with the integration of API calls by adding new API to the github-for-jira. The user made a number of key changes to the app.js file to handle issues and also worked on the frontend by editing the code for the github-oauth.js file.
integrationjiraatlassianproject-managementtrello
madebysource/lesshat
Jun 2016 - Sep 2017
Smart LESS CSS mixins library.
Role in this project:Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:12 commits, 4 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Michel focused on improving the build process and project portability. They integrated build tasks directly into the project, reducing external dependencies. Key changes included setting up build directories, incorporating build and test tasks in `Gruntfile.js` and adjusting the project structure by moving source files within the tasks folder. The user updated the documentation to include new bower instructions.
mixinscsshintsless-cssscss
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