Summary
William Laroche is a pragmatic technology leader and hands-on CTO with 11 years of experience building backend systems, data pipelines, and developer tooling across startups and embedded-systems firms. Based in Quebec, he has driven measurable performance gains—most notably architecting an Elasticsearch indexing pipeline that cut a page load from 10–50s to under one second—and implemented production analytics stacks using BigQuery, DBT and BI tooling. He combines full-stack development (Python, React, GraphQL, microservices) with DevOps and observability work, and has founded a consulting startup that commercialized an electronics testing framework. Comfortable leading small engineering teams and acting as a lightweight scrum master, he brings an operator’s mindset to shipping reliable, performant systems that bridge hardware and cloud.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Génie Informatique (Computer Engineering), Bachelor's degree Génie Informatique (Computer Engineering) at Université Laval
DEC Sciences informatiques et mathématiques, DEC Sciences informatiques et mathématiques at Cégep Limoilou
English, French