Benoit Grégoire
Owner at Technologies Coeus inc.
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolBenoit Grégoire is a seasoned software leader and founder based in Montreal with 23 years of experience blending hands-on engineering, systems architecture, and product leadership. As owner of Technologies Coeus and former CTO roles at bluenove and Agile-U, he has led teams building large-scale web platforms, collective intelligence tools, and e-learning systems while steering R&D projects funded by the European Commission. He is comfortable at the intersection of embedded systems and web services—his open-source contributions include deep backend and architecture work on the widely used wifidog captive portal and transaction-matching fixes for GnuCash. Benoit combines low-level expertise (firewall, authentication, init systems) with higher-level product thinking and organizational leadership trained via HEC Montréal. Known for reducing team turnover and adapting ISO9001 to preserve agility, he brings pragmatic process improvements as well as technical depth. He prefers short-term mandates through Coeus now, helping organizations solve problems that involve both people and technology.
24 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer Engineering, Bachelor, Computer Engineering at Polytechnique MontréalCertificate, Organizational Leadership, Certificate, Organizational Leadership at HEC Montréal
English, French
Github Skills (17)
architecture10
configuration-management10
firewall10
c1110
iptables10
c1710
system10
accounting-software10
sys10
embedded10
architectures10
networking9
http9
cprogramming-language8
openwrt8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
wifidog/wifidog-gateway
Mar 2004 - Apr 2019
Repository for the wifidog-gateway captive portal designed for embedded systems
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & System Architect
Back-end Developer & System ArchitectContributions:57 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 15 years 3 months
Contributions summary:The user, Benoit Grgoire, appears to be a key contributor responsible for significant architectural and backend development work. His commits encompass integrating the libhttpd library, refactoring code, and addressing build system issues. He focused on core configuration file parsing, system initialization, firewall rules, authentication handling, and client management, indicating a deep understanding of the project's architecture and low-level system interactions.
captive-portalembedded
Gnucash/gnucash
Sep 2002 - Apr 2007
GnuCash Double-Entry Accounting Program.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:89 commits, 1 comment in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Benoit primarily worked on improving the transaction matching functionality within the GnuCash accounting program. Their contributions include refactoring the transaction matcher UI, implementing a check number heuristic, enhancing date matching, and fixing bugs related to investment transactions. They also addressed compiler warnings and improved the logging system, adding logging of the transaction notes field.
gnucash
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