Samuel Dion-girardeau
Chief Technology Officer at Tilt
Quebec, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolSamuel Dion-girardeau is a CTO and software engineer with a decade of experience building cloud-native services, leading engineering teams, and shipping production-grade systems across startups and established companies. With roots in linguistics and language science, he combines analytic rigor and attention to language with practical engineering—evident in his hands-on contributions to UX improvements and documentation for notable open-source projects like Celery and xonsh. He has driven reliability and developer productivity through CI/CD, Docker/Kubernetes, and automation while also improving product UX as a full-stack contributor (e.g., secure password sharing UI work for Snappass). Comfortable switching between technical leadership and deep implementation, Samuel is skilled at turning research-informed ideas into maintainable engineering outcomes. Based in Quebec City, he brings a rare mix of linguistics-informed thinking, technical writing craftsmanship, and operational CTO experience.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate Computer Science, Certificate Computer Science at Université LavalLicense 3 Lettres Modernes, License 3 Lettres Modernes at Université Paris-Sorbonne
French, English, German, Spanish
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Github Skills (44)
restructuredtext10
python10
rs10
flask-ask10
security10
xonsh10
shell10
flask10
documentation10
amqp9
testing9
dockers9
pytest9
typos9
docker9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
pinterest/snappass
Jul 2016 - Nov 2019
Share passwords securely
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:50 commits, 17 PRs, 26 comments in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Samuel primarily focused on improving the user interface and overall user experience of the password sharing application. Their contributions include adding a clipboard button for easy password copying, enhancing string encoding for password retrieval, preventing browser autocompletion, and improving the Docker setup. They also addressed Python versioning, testing, and documentation, ensuring broader compatibility.
passwordspassword-generatorsecuritypasswordpassword-strength
errbotio/errbot
Oct 2016 - Oct 2018
Errbot is a chatbot, a daemon that connects to your favorite chat service and bring your tools and some fun into the conversation.
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 1 comment in 2 years
Contributions summary:Samuel primarily focused on improving the project's documentation. Their contributions include fixing typos, improving formatting, and clarifying the user guide, especially regarding flow development. They also corrected import error messages for different backends. These changes enhanced the clarity and readability of the documentation, contributing to a better user experience for the Errbot project.
chatopschatbotspythondevopsdaemon
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