Vincent Boivin
Production Engineer at Meta
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVincent Boivin is a production engineer with 9 years of experience building scalable distributed systems and backend services, now based in San Francisco and working on Meta’s AI Platform and LLM runtime teams. He specializes in Linux-first backend architecture and full-stack problem solving, with a particular appetite for capacity planning and runtime reliability at scale. His career spans high-impact SRE and production roles at Meta, TikTok, and SAP, where he focused on recommendation infrastructure, web infra, and cloud commerce. An active open-source contributor, he added locale-aware generators and AWS-specific data to the popular Elixir faker library, showing attention to practical tooling for international and cloud-focused workflows. Vincent pairs a Master’s in Software Engineering with hands-on production experience, continuously learning to keep pace with fast-moving industry trends. Colleagues describe him as both detail-oriented in systems design and curious about the subtle trade-offs that make distributed services resilient.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng Software Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng Software Engineering at École de technologie supérieureBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Concordia University
French, English
Github Skills (10)
data-generation10
elixir10
testing10
user-data9
data-model9
data-set9
aws9
faker9
francais8
french8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
elixirs/faker
Aug 2020 - Oct 2020
Faker is a pure Elixir library for generating fake data.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 6 PRs, 4 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Vincent primarily contributed to the `faker` Elixir library by implementing generators for French and AWS related information. They added new functions to generate French names and included French translations for AWS region names, and AWS service actions. The user's work expanded the library's capabilities for generating locale-specific data and generating fake data related to AWS. They also updated existing test cases.
datadeveloper-toolsfakergeneratortesting-tools
Vboivin/Vboivin
Sep 2020 - Oct 2022
Contributions:35 commits, 33 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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