Summary
Philippe Gamache is a Developer Mentor and AppSec specialist with 14 years of experience helping teams ship secure, high-performance PHP and Symfony applications. He blends hands-on mentoring, workshops and mob development with practical audits for security, code quality, performance and accessibility. A longtime advocate of continuous integration, coding standards and Agile practices, he has led training programs across startups and large orgs including Lightspeed and Yellow Pages. Philippe also brings an unusual mix of creative design and pedagogy as the owner and lead game designer of Gnome Archiviste, applying gamification to drive developer and client engagement. He authored a French book on PHP/MySQL security and has a track record of organizing major community events, demonstrating deep roots in the Montreal tech scene. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic security guidance, Doctrine and Symfony expertise, and sustained developer upskilling.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
DEC, Computer Science, DEC, Computer Science at Collège Édouard-Montpetit
Charles-Lemoyne
French, English