Gaëtan Perrault
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolGaëtan Perrault is a seasoned software leader and board chair with 15 years of experience designing, building, and maintaining systems that scale from small businesses to platforms handling hundreds of millions of daily hits. He has led technical teams and cross-functional programs at Roblox and Dynamic Signal, blending hands-on development in .NET/C# and distributed databases with hiring, mentoring, and operational standards that persist across organizations. Comfortable from specification to deployment, he has driven Trust & Safety, moderation, and high-throughput backend architectures while also delivering developer tools and training used company-wide. An investor and technical advisor to game and education organizations, he pairs board-level governance with deep engineering judgement. He contributes part-time to open-source — notably enhancing the Foundry VTT dnd5e system — showing a practical interest in community-driven tooling. Based in Vancouver, he favors elegant, maintainable systems and measurable operational impact over flashy one-offs.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science at University of ManitobaHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at College Louis Riel
English, French
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Github Skills (38)
javascript10
nosql10
database-design10
nodejs10
game-development10
virtual-tabletop10
mongodb10
database10
mysql9
cassandra9
ubuntu9
redis9
socket-io9
mongoose9
couchdb9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
foundryvtt/dnd5e
Jan 2020 - Apr 2020
An implementation of the 5th Edition game system for Foundry Virtual Tabletop (http://foundryvtt.com).
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 2 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Gaëtan contributed to the Foundry Virtual Tabletop's 5th Edition game system implementation by adding features related to class and item management. They implemented functionality to set hit dice and levels directly from class entries. Further contributions include an equipped indicator for items and improved display of item quantities. Additionally, the user added skill proficiency information to classes and implemented an "always prepared" spell type.
virtual-tabletop
gatesvp/url-short
Apr 2011 - Aug 2011
Contributions:253 commits in 4 months
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