Philippe Bouffaut
SVP, Head Of Technology at Industrious
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolPhilippe Bouffaut is a seasoned technology executive with 25+ years of experience and 11 years in senior leadership, currently serving as SVP, Head of Technology at Industrious in Montreal. He has led multi-disciplinary teams through product pivots and M&A transitions—most notably steering Breather’s technical transformation and due diligence leading to its integration with Industrious. Comfortable at the intersection of product, engineering and data, he has a track record of building resilient SaaS and marketplace platforms and establishing scalable Agile practices. A hands-on technologist early in his career, he has contributed to Java tooling for API description generation, reflecting deep familiarity with backend architectures and API design. His background spans startups to scale-ups and includes founding and CEO experience in NLP/ML-driven media monitoring, highlighting an unusual blend of operational leadership and technical craftsmanship.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
DUT Informatique, DUT Informatique at Paris-Sud University (Paris XI)National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts
French, English
Github Skills (8)
jersey10
javas10
api10
apidoc10
java10
jax-rs10
raml9
maven6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
mulesoft-labs/raml-for-jax-rs
Oct 2016 - Jan 2017
This project is all about two way transformation of JAX-RS-annotated Java code to RAML API description and back.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:44 commits, 1 comment in 2 months
Contributions summary:Philippe primarily contributed to the development of a Java-based RAML API description generator. Their work involved creating a class path gatherer to extract JAX-RS resource classes, indicating a focus on parsing and analyzing Java code with JAX-RS annotations. They added tests for path-based resource extraction and incorporated method-level annotations. The user further extended the functionality to extract methods annotated with HTTP verbs, body media types, and query and header parameters.
transformationapitwo-wayjaxjax-rs
infra-blocks/git-tag-semver-workflow
Jan 2024 - May 2024
A reusable workflow that pushes semantic versioning git tags based on a version bump input.
Contributions:40 PRs, 50 pushes, 40 branches in 4 months
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