Sébastien Lavoie
Software Engineering Manager at Coveo
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSébastien Lavoie is a seasoned software engineering manager with 14 years of experience building and scaling infrastructure, developer tools, and internal platforms across Apple, Shopify, and now Coveo. He has led and mentored large teams—about 40 full-time reports and a dozen interns over six years of management—while driving SOX-compliant automation for financial flows and resilient streaming and notification systems. Equally comfortable in hands-on refactors and system design, he contributed to notable open-source projects like Elastica and Doctrine and improved macOS tooling such as osx-cpu-temp. Known for championing API-first, headless architectures and developer experience, he blends operational rigor with product-focused leadership and a history as a founder and freelancer that gives him pragmatic, cross-functional perspective.
14 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
DEC, Pure Science, DEC, Pure Science at Collège de MaisonneuveHigh school, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, High school, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at École Secondaire Henri-BourassaBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at Université de Montréal
French, English, Spanish
Github Skills (18)
debug10
testing10
amazon-elasticsearch10
doctrine10
c1110
c1710
elasticsearchquery10
php10
aws-elasticsearch10
elasticsearch10
macos10
sensor10
elasticsearch-api10
command-line-interface9
mongodb-database9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
lavoiesl/osx-cpu-temp
May 2012 - May 2019
Outputs current CPU temperature for OSX
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 28 commits, 18 PRs in 7 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Sébastien primarily contributed to improving and expanding the functionality of the `osx-cpu-temp` project, which outputs CPU temperature data for macOS. Their work included refactoring code, adding GPU and fan speed readings, and incorporating features such as the ability to display temperatures in Fahrenheit and Celsius. The user also updated the project's build process by adding a linter.
cpuosxsensorsoutputspower-management
doctrine/data-fixtures
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
Doctrine2 ORM Data Fixtures Extensions
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 14 commits, 32 PRs in 9 days
Contributions summary:Sébastien primarily contributed to bug fixes and enhancements within the Doctrine data fixtures library. They addressed circular dependency issues, improved testing related to proxy instances, and corrected quoting issues within the ORMPurger class. Furthermore, the user added an exception for undefined references in the reference repository. Their contributions involved modifying core components and improving the library's robustness.
mysqlfactoryphpdbaldoctrine2
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