Sebastien Filion
Head Of Exchange Optimization (Product)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolSebastien Filion is a product and technology leader with 12+ years building and scaling ad tech and digital growth products, currently heading Exchange Optimization (Product) at Equativ. A co‑founder of district m, he helped grow its ad exchange to a top‑10 global platform delivering 17 billion daily ad requests and over $100M in annual revenue, blending hands‑on engineering, product strategy and entrepreneurial grit. His background spans CTO and CPO roles, revenue optimization and digital growth, with a track record of driving 300% publisher revenue uplifts and operational automation. Based in Montreal, he teaches web development—focused on JavaScript, Deno and functional programming—and streams twice weekly, bridging product leadership with developer advocacy. Known for wearing many hats in startups, he brings a rare mix of technical depth, UX sensibility and commercial focus to complex exchange optimization problems.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Electronics Engineering Technology Electronics, Electronics Engineering Technology Electronics at Collège de MaisonneuveBachelor Business Administration IT, Bachelor Business Administration IT at HEC Montréal
English, French
Stackoverflow
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4kreached
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Github Skills (59)
io-monad10
deno10
javascript10
dataflow10
redis10
architecture10
graph10
typescript10
fold10
communication-protocol10
nodejs10
engine10
rust10
backend10
cms9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
idexlabs/idex.nucleus.core
Apr 2018 - Dec 2018
IDEX Nucleus Core is the framework to build flexible, scalable and structured back-end architecture
Contributions:240 commits, 16 PRs, 117 pushes in 7 months
backendnodejsmicroservicerediscommunication-protocol
functionalland/functional-io
Sep 2020 - Jan 2021
Contributions:2 releases, 18 commits, 22 pushes in 3 months
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