Ylian Saint-hilaire
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolYlian Saint-hilaire is a Principal Software Engineer with 14 years of experience designing cloud-native remote management and security software, currently at Microsoft in Portland. He built MeshCentral, an open-source remote monitoring solution with over 6 million downloads used by Fortune 500 companies, and has deployed resilient systems across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. A prolific inventor and communicator, he holds 21 patents, multiple Intel awards including two Achievement Awards, and has a strong public-speaking track record at major industry forums. His technical breadth spans Node.js, C/C++, C#, Kotlin and Swift, databases from MongoDB to PostgreSQL, and hardware-integrated features like Intel AMT and IPsec acceleration. Fully bilingual and tri-citizen of the US, Canada, and France, he combines deep security-first engineering with practical, production-hardened open-source leadership.
14 years of coding experience
DEC, Pure and applied Science, DEC, Pure and applied Science at Collège de MaisonneuvePre-doctoral research, Computer Science, Pre-doctoral research, Computer Science at École Nationale Supérieure des TélécommunicationsMasters, Computer Sciences, Masters, Computer Sciences at Université du Québec à Montréal / UQAM
French, English
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Github Skills (146)
kvm10
lan10
displays10
python10
tray10
remote-management10
internet10
remote-desktop10
serve10
monitoring10
udp10
intel10
tray-icon10
linux10
flash10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Ylianst/MeshCentralInstaller
Oct 2020 - Sep 2022
Windows installer for MeshCentral
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
Ylianst/MeshCentral
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
A complete web-based remote monitoring and management web site. Once setup you can install agents and perform remote desktop session to devices on the local network or over the Internet.
Contributions:84 releases, 1 commit, 657 PRs in 1 day
web-site-managementremote-desktopkvmweb-siteweb-based
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