Philippe Chrétien
Chief Technology Officer at Half Serious
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolPhilippe Chrétien is a veteran technology leader and CTO with 17 years of professional experience and a programming journey that began on a TRS-80 in 1982. He blends deep systems-level expertise in C/C++ and real-time/embedded development with modern cloud-first architectures, having led serverless AWS initiatives and full-stack product engineering at Half Serious. An entrepreneur who launched GeekOClock via highly successful Kickstarter campaigns and fulfilled thousands of global orders, he pairs product intuition with hands-on engineering. His background spans secure enterprise systems, encryption, and application security as well as automation and microcontroller work, enabling him to bridge firmware-to-cloud product stacks. Based in Montreal, he is the kind of technologist who sees through “techno-buzz” to practical, maintainable solutions that scale.
17 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Mechanical Engineering & Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Mechanical Engineering & Computer Science at Polytechnique MontréalCEGEP Science Pure, CEGEP Science Pure at Bois-De-Boulogne
French, English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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457reached
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Github Skills (16)
fibonacci10
clock9
dropbox-api8
chatbot8
application-settings6
sdk6
anthropic6
dropbox-sdk6
multithreading6
logic6
netstandard5
api4
dotnet4
netframework4
csharp3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
pchretien/fibo
May 2015 - May 2020
Fibonacci Clock
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
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pchretien/cryptoeditor
Feb 2009 - Jan 2011
Contributions:44 commits in 1 year 11 months
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