Yan Avery
Software Architect at Techstars
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolYan Avery is a seasoned software architect and technology leader based in Montreal with over 30 years of industry experience and 15 years in senior roles, preferring the fast pace of startups and scale-ups. He has led engineering teams and built cloud-native, serverless payments and fintech platforms that process billions daily, and helped exit a company to IBM in 2020. As CTO, engineering lead and advisor across fintech, retail, e-commerce and manufacturing, he combines deep hands-on experience in web/cloud technologies, relational and NoSQL databases, and OO design with proven team-building and operational leadership. He is a certified Scrum Master and frequent mentor through programs like Techstars, Plato and Desjardins’ Startup in Residence, bringing both coaching and practical execution to product delivery. Notably, Yan was instrumental in rolling out one of the first cloud-native wires engines and has repeatedly scaled engineering orgs from single digits to hundreds. He blends pragmatic architecture with startup grit to turn complex financial and commerce requirements into reliable, scalable SaaS systems.
14 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science & Information Technologies, Computer Science & Information Technologies at Collège de MaisonneuveMicroprocessors Microprocessors, Microprocessors Microprocessors at UQAM | Université du Québec à MontréalHigh School, High School at Collège St-Jean-Vianney
French, English
Stackoverflow
223reputation
17kreached
2answers
2questions
Github Skills (52)
nodejs9
mongodb9
sqlite8
database8
orm8
sql-server8
mssql8
prisma8
javascript8
mysql8
cockroachdb8
query-builder8
postgresql8
mariadb7
homebridge7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
yanavery/MyDoorOpener-Arduino
Jun 2011 - Dec 2014
Contributions:1 release, 10 commits, 1 push in 3 years 6 months
yanavery/homebridge-hydroquebec-peak-virtual-switch
Jan 2025 - Feb 2025
Contributions:17 pushes in 14 days
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