Summary
Dom Derrien is a seasoned CTO and technical founder with eight years in senior leadership roles and over two decades of hands-on experience building scalable distributed systems for games, fintech, and education. He currently leads Tradelite Solutions and co-founded Services Brigant & Derrien, helping partners turn financial data into engaging casual and educational gaming experiences while advising on cloud-native architectures across AWS, GCP, and Azure. Previously a principal architect at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and technical lead at Ubisoft, he designed content pipelines and high‑scale game backends handling large concurrent user bases using Node.js, Kubernetes, and resilient data architectures. Dom blends product-minded engineering with operational rigour—shipping CI/CD, telemetry, and lifecycle tooling that bridge legacy platforms and modern microservices. He is comfortable working with brand partners and studios, prototyping ideas through to production, and has a long history of integrating diverse systems (from Web Components to cloud storage tiering) to solve real-world constraints. Based in Montreal, he pairs academic foundations in computer science with a rare mix of publishing, entertainment, and fintech domain knowledge.
8 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc Computer Science, M.Sc Computer Science at Université de Rennes I
French, English