Sebastien Coutu
Principal Solution Architect at Maxa
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSebastien Coutu is a Principal Solution Architect based in Montreal with over two decades in technology and a decade of focused senior leadership in cloud, DevOps, and security. He has led large infrastructure and platform teams—supporting 70+ developers and managing production systems at scale—through roles at Mnubo/Aspen, Hopper, and startups, combining hands-on systems engineering with strategic vendor partnerships (AWS, Azure). Known for driving SOC2-ready security programs, cost-controlled cloud operations, and scalable logging/monitoring architectures, he blends technical depth with mentorship and cross-functional council leadership. At Metacommerce and Maxa he has shaped product platforms end-to-end, from design and implementation to tooling and team enablement. A practical architect who moves between board-level security councils and the CLI, he excels at turning complex requirements into auditable, production-ready infrastructure.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
DEC Electronics, DEC Electronics at Institut TeccartCertificate Computer Science, Certificate Computer Science at Université de Montréal
French, English
Github Skills (56)
artificial-intelligence10
docker10
reverse-proxy10
luajit10
api10
gateway10
api-gateway10
ai10
serverless10
kong10
nginx10
devops10
load-balancing9
kubernetes9
terraform9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
sebastienc/fortkickass
Nov 2017 - Oct 2022
Fortkickass blog
Contributions:6 PRs, 30 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 11 months
jekyll
mnubo/spark-ui-proxy
May 2018 - Apr 2019
Lightweight proxy to expose the UI of an Apache Spark cluster that is behind a firewall
Contributions:3 PRs, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
proxyapacheexposesparkapache-spark
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