Philippe L'heureux
Principal at nesto
Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolPhilippe L'heureux is a Principal software engineer with 15 years of experience designing and shipping resilient, distributed systems across startups and scale-ups. Skilled in Scala, Java, Go and a wide polyglot stack, he has led migrations from monoliths to microservices and run large Docker/Mesos deployments while building backend services for audio processing, notifications, fingerprinting and SSO. As a former CTO and co‑founder he pairs hands‑on engineering with product and project leadership, having delivered real‑time social monitoring and crowdsourced media platforms. Comfortable across OSes from NixOS to SmartOS and tools from Emacs to IntelliJ, he favors pragmatic architectures (Akka, Play, RabbitMQ, MongoDB, ElasticSearch) that enable frequent releases. He brings a mix of systems-level curiosity—evident in his use of less-common stacks like Haskell and Illumos—and production-first discipline to fast-moving teams.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Baccalauréat Sciences informatiques, Baccalauréat Sciences informatiques at Université de Montréal
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Github Skills (66)
python10
animation10
video-processing10
ffmpeg10
video-editing10
editing10
gif10
youtube9
cli9
docker-machine9
multiarch9
datasource9
falcor9
youtube-dl9
reactivemongo8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
synhaptein/kaliya
Oct 2010 - Jun 2011
Contributions:36 commits in 7 months
synhaptein/migmongo
Mar 2013 - Aug 2014
Contributions:11 commits, 1 push in 1 year 5 months
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