Simon Poirier
Software Engineer at Canonical Ltd.
Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolSimon Poirier is a seasoned software engineer based in Sherbrooke, Quebec with 11 years of experience building full-stack and systems software across Linux environments. Currently at Canonical, he combines web skills (HTML, JavaScript, Java, Spring, JSP) with strong backend and systems expertise (PostgreSQL, Python, C/C++, Qt, bash, OpenVZ) to deliver production-ready solutions. His background spans startups and enterprise teams, working on both front-end/back-end roles and infrastructure automation (maven, Hibernate, BCFG2). Comfortable moving between GUI toolkits and low-level system work, Simon brings a pragmatic, cross-domain approach that helps bridge application development and platform operations.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Baccalauréat, Génie Informatique, Baccalauréat, Génie Informatique at Université de SherbrookeDEC en Sciences pures, DEC en Sciences pures at Cégep de St-Hyacinthe
French, English
Stackoverflow
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310kreached
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Github Skills (54)
ubuntu10
agent9
command-line-tool9
rust8
serial-port8
mir8
busybox8
terminal-emulator7
changelog7
coreutils7
code-coverage6
gevent6
pycharm6
gunicorn6
buildbot6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
simpoir/adventofcode
Dec 2020 - Dec 2025
Contributions:42 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years
simpoir/imap_block
Apr 2020 - Oct 2024
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
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