Renaud Bourassa
Co-Founder & CTO at Distributional
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRenaud Bourassa is a seasoned software engineer and co-founder with 17 years of experience building production-grade systems focused on search, recommendations, location inference, and AI safety. As Chief Architect at Distributional he now concentrates on making AI reliable and secure, drawing on senior engineering leadership at Stripe and Slack and an early research grounding at Google. He combines deep hands-on expertise in search/autocomplete and capital underwriting systems with a pragmatic product sensibility from multiple large-scale platforms. Renaud took a deliberate career sabbatical to travel widely across North America, reflecting a preference for real-world exploration that informs his practical approach to problem solving. Trained at the University of Waterloo with advanced CS coursework at Stanford, he blends rigorous academic tooling with startup execution and system-level design. Based in Montreal, he pairs architectural vision with a coder’s curiosity and an outdoorsman’s appetite for long journeys.
17 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Completed coursework towards Master of Science (MS), Computer Science, Completed coursework towards Master of Science (MS), Computer Science at Stanford UniversityInternational Baccalaureate, Pure and Applied Science, International Baccalaureate, Pure and Applied Science at Collège Jean-de-BrébeufBachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Software Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Software Engineering at University of Waterloo
English, French
Github Skills (25)
rpc-server10
netty9
http9
thrift9
rpc-library9
gateway9
micro-framework9
http-server9
http-client9
grpc9
retrofit9
cpp9
microservices8
kotlin8
spring8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
renaudb/renaudb.github.com
Jan 2016 - Jul 2024
Contributions:28 pushes in 8 years 6 months
renaudb/bixi
Sep 2021 - Jul 2026
Contributions:2 PRs, 22 pushes, 8 branches in 4 years 11 months
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