Samuel Cormier-iijima
CTO & Co-Founder at Fellow - AI Meeting Assistant
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSamuel Cormier-iijima is a seasoned CTO and co-founder with 19 years of experience building developer-focused web products and AI-driven collaboration tools from Ottawa. As CTO of Fellow since 2017 he blends hands-on systems and backend engineering—particularly Rust and web services—with strategic product leadership shaped by earlier startup exits and senior management at SurveyMonkey. His open-source footprint spans Rust-Python bindings, high-performance Rust linters like ruff, and Python GraphQL tooling (strawberry), reflecting deep expertise in language interop, code quality, and type-safe APIs. Comfortable moving between low-level cryptography and pragmatic web engineering, he’s known for turning subtle runtime and typing edge cases into robust platform features.
19 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Illinois Mathematics and Science AcademyBachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Computer Engineering at McGill University
French, German, Japanese
Github Skills (35)
raspberry-pi-pico10
static-analysis10
facebook-api10
apidoc10
python10
testing10
mypy10
macros10
plugin-development10
wpgraphql10
redmine-plugins10
enums10
plugin10
ruby10
binding10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
sciyoshi/redmine-slack
Feb 2014 - Dec 2016
Slack notification plugin for Redmine
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 21 commits, 29 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Samuel primarily focused on enhancing the Redmine Slack notification plugin, addressing issues related to custom fields, and improving notification messages. They removed functionality for bulk update notifications, added support for file attachments, and fixed how certain fields, like versions and categories, were displayed. Furthermore, the user implemented features for customizing the Slack icon and routing projects to different channels.
notification-pluginnotificationsslacknotificationredmine
sciyoshi/pyfacebook
Aug 2006 - Mar 2014
PyFacebook
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:160 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 7 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Samuel primarily contributed to the `PyFacebook` project by fixing a bug related to argument scoping in `facebook.py`. They enhanced the sample code to be more effective. Furthermore, the user added license information and refactored the code to make the methods generic. The user also contributed with image uploading functionality and improvements to the internal Facebook app integration.
python
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