Valentin Backofen
Senior Director Digital Development at National Bank of Canada
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolValentin Backofen is a seasoned technology leader and Senior Director of Digital Development with over a decade of experience building digital platforms that span web, mobile, IoT and eCommerce. He has led cross-functional teams and launched a technology factory at National Bank of Canada aimed at fundamentally transforming banking operations, after steering global digital roadmaps and marketing platforms at BRP. A serial entrepreneur and co-founder of QiSports, Valentin blends product-driven startup grit with enterprise delivery discipline, having delivered solutions for clients like Toyota, IKEA, Air Canada and L’Oreal. He is known for cutting through technical jargon to align business and engineering, championing readable, maintainable code and resilient delivery practices. German-Canadian with Norwegian roots and a proud father of four, he pairs a global outlook with hands-on leadership in architecture, DevOps and automation.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
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English, French, German, Norwegian, Spanish, Danish, Swedish
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Github Skills (69)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
vevmesteren/ansible-role-nodejs
Sep 2014 - Jan 2018
Contributions:16 commits, 4 PRs, 27 pushes in 3 years 5 months
javascriptnodejsupstart
vevmesteren/initd-forever
Nov 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:2 pushes in 14 days
node-jsdaemonnodejsnodejs-applicationjs-module
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