All notable changes to this project (my career) will be documented in this section.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

3.0.0 - Principal Software Developer @ Octav (2025-02 to Present)

Added

• Transition to crypto/blockchain world; thanks to Luc Blackburn and Mathieu Baril for providing me the opportunity to enter this world.
• Many LinkedIn Learning certificates; check them out!
• Professional portfolio website: ouimet.info. I really like my Career Changelog section 🤓.

Deprecated

• Flexport made a reorg in 2024-10 and it was my turn to look for a new adventure.

2.4.0 - Senior Staff Developer @ Flexport (2023-06 to 2024-10)

Added

• Integrations between Flexport's freight-forwarding core systems with the newly acquired fulfillment business (known internally as omni-channel).
• Foundation for an abstraction layer to smoothly transition ~80 microservices to AWS SDK V3 and out of Node.js v16.
• Knowledge in the global logistics and supply chain industry, focusing on omni-channel fulfillment.

Deprecated

• Shopify sold its logistics division to Flexport in 2023-06.

2.3.0 - Senior Staff Developer @ Shopify Logistics (2022-07 to 2023-06)

Added

• Member of the Technical Leadership Community (TLC). The mission of our group of 8-10 leaders from across Shopify Logistics' sub-divisions was to guide a team of ~300 developers through the acquisition and standardize best practices. I built presentations and video capsules covering patterns like the transactional outbox, sagas (orchestration vs. choreography), and more.
  The TLC wasn't about enforcing architecture rules; instead, we served as a sounding board, helping teams validate system designs through collaborative discussions. Shout-out to Jeremiah Brazeau and Alireza Assadzadeh.
• Implementation of observability-as-code to streamline the deployment of DataDog monitors in our CD pipelines.
• Knowledge in the logistics industry, working across fulfillment, and supply chain integrations.

Deprecated

• Shopify acquired Deliverr in 2022-07.

2.2.0 - Senior Developer @ Deliverr (2021-12 to 2022-07)

Added

• Use of TSOA; shout-out to Gal Tidhar.
• Use of Maxwell as our change data capture (CDC) solution.
• Implementation of the transactional outbox pattern in a brand new service and refactored an already-existing service to use this pattern.
• Definition of the original specification for integration events in our distributed ecosystem, ensuring a robust foundation for inter-service communication.
• Many contributions to our private packages in the organization's NPM repository; improving developers' expericence across our ecosystem.
• A few small Slack communities/sub-groups focusing on domain-driven design, event-driven architecture, serverless technologies, observability, etc.
• Knowledge in the fulfillment and warehousing industry.

2.1.0 - Tech Lead @ SSENSE (2019-10 to 2021-12)

Added

• Use of Domain-Driven Design (#ddd); shout-out to Mário Bittencourt.
• Use of Event-Driven Architecture (eda).
• Use of state machine to manage the state of the customer orders in the newly-peeled-off order management system (OMS).
• Use of SOLID principles.
• Use of hexagonal architecture; shout-out to Pablo Martinez.
• Use of event storming.
• Use of C4 model.
• Use of serverless framework and other serverless-focused AWS technologies (like Lambda).
• Use of DynamoDB.
• Use of OpenAPI Specification to officialize our contracts; shout-out to Mário Bittencourt for his article.
• Use of BPMN (Business Process Model and Notation).
• Project to peel-off the order management system (OMS) out of the company's monolith to its own DDD domain/microservices.
• Use of TypeScript and Node.js; shout-out to Yannick Cordinier.
• Use of GitHub Copilot as my favourite coding buddy.
• Member of Technical Architecture Group (TAG). With the architects, Staff & Principal Engineers, our group of 6-10 people established the departments' tech standards. Oversaw the projects of 3 other teams to ensure they followed the established standards while still applying best practices to reach the targeted software *ilities.
• Winner of Hackathon 2019 with my idea to improve the onboarding process of new hires.
• Knowledge in the luxury e-commerce industry and distributed order management systems.

Changed

• Title/seniority level to Tech Lead in 2020-08; I was originially hired as a Senior Developer.

2.0.0 - Senior Developer @ Zola (2019-01 to 2019-10)

Added

• Use of Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Use of microservices.
• Use of trunk-based development.
• Use of feature flags.
• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certification issued on 2019-04-19.
• Knowledge in the wedding and event planning industry.
• Knowledge in the e-commerce industry.

Changed

• The type of companies I worked for; shout-out to Yan Avery for providing me the opportunity to enter startup world.

1.2.0 - Architect @ AFS Technologies (2011-11 to 2018-12)

Added

• Skills to develop SaaS solutions.
• Use of Agile methodologies.
• Use of Java, Spring framework, Hibernate, Mockito.
• Building of REST APIs.
• Use of Continuous Integration (CI) pipelines.
• Use of ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes and MDX query language in a Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) environment.
• Scrum Master certification.
• Knowledge in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry.

Changed

• Title/seniority level to Architect in 2014-09; I was originially hired as a Senior Developer.

1.1.0 - Senior Developer @ Vidéotron (2006-07 to 2011-10)

Added

• Knowledge in the telecommunications sector (specializing on the network management system).

1.0.0 - Senior Developer @ Markzware Software (2001-03 to 2006-06)

Added

• Use of C, C++, Perl.
• Knowledge in the digital publishing, prepress and printing industry.

0.1.0 - The Beginning (2001)

Added

• The beginning of my journey into professional software development with a passion for problem-solving and technology.