Simon Dufour
COO, Programmer at Aperium Reality
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Dufour is a pragmatic engineering leader and COO with a decade of experience building performance-sensitive software and embedded systems from Montreal. He specializes in bridging languages, runtimes and hardware—delivering C++/C# interop, low-latency threading, networking sync via an in-house ECS, and VR rendering pipelines for a proprietary treadmill platform. His background ranges from medical device firmware and safety-conscious control loops to verification of smart-meter stacks and production-grade test automation, giving him a rare full-stack view from silicon to simulation. Colleagues rely on him to find unconventional but pragmatic tool combinations that optimize throughput and responsiveness while keeping systems maintainable. Notably, he pairs algorithmic navigation and path optimization with shader and single-pass VR rendering to squeeze real-time performance from complex pipelines.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
HIGH SCHOOL/SECONDARY DIPLOMAS AND CERTIFICATES, HIGH SCHOOL/SECONDARY DIPLOMAS AND CERTIFICATES at Regina-AssumptaEngineer's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Engineer's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Université de Montréal - Ecole polytechnique de Montréal
English, French
Github Skills (15)
shader10
scriptable10
render10
post-processing10
pipeline10
unity3d10
water8
ocean7
shaderlab6
cg5
gradle-plugin3
nodejs2
gradle2
javascript1
npm1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
simonduf/data
Feb 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:29 pushes, 2 branches, 14 tags in 10 months
javascriptnodejsnpm
simonduf/AntsExperiments
Apr 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:3 PRs, 6 pushes, 4 branches in 7 months
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