Sylvain Perron
Chief Executive Officer at Botpress
Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSylvain Perron is the founder-CEO of Botpress with 11 years of experience building developer tooling and conversational AI that helps teams understand text and automate complex conversations. He combines hands-on backend engineering—contributing integrations, CLI improvements, and Slack/Linear sync features to the open-source Botpress repo—with strategic leadership scaling a product-centric engineering org. Based in Guelph, Ontario, he previously led engineering at Protorisk and cut his teeth in scientific and research-focused software roles, giving him a pragmatic, data-driven approach to product development. Known for shipping production-ready integrations and dependency maintenance, he blends deep technical ownership with a founder’s appetite for tough engineering hires and growth.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering, Software Engineering at Université Laval
mandarin, chinois, English, French
Github Skills (15)
intergration10
javascript10
integrate10
api10
apidoc10
integrations10
typescript-types9
slack9
typescript9
typescripts9
nodejs9
agent8
llm8
ai7
nlp7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
botpress/botpress
Oct 2016 - Nov 2021
The open-source hub to build & deploy GPT/LLM Agents ⚡️
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Integration Engineer
Back-end Developer & Integration EngineerContributions:5 releases, 70 reviews, 3791 commits in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Sylvain primarily focused on back-end development tasks related to integrations within the Botpress platform. Their contributions involved modifying existing integration code, particularly for the Linear and Slack integrations. These changes included fixing bugs, adding features like user synchronization in Slack, and updating dependencies, demonstrating a focus on ensuring the platform's smooth operation and expanding its capabilities. They also worked on the CLI, adding missing bot definitions to the dev command.
nlupythonbotbotkitbotpress
botpress/Boost
Dec 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:29 commits, 4 PRs, 28 pushes in 4 months
discordbotdiscord-botboostchatbot
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