Career Changelog

This changelog is a fun little 🤓 experiment I built to showcase my journey and projects. For a complete overview of my experience and skills, check out my resume page and you'll find a downloadable PDF.

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.

4.0.0 - Staff Software Developer @ Shopify (2025-08 to Present)

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Member of the shop.app team.
Use of Ruby; shout-out to The Pragmatic Studio's Ruby Programming course which helped me quickly learn a language I hadn't used before.
Ruby really reminds me of Perl, a language I used extensively when I first started building websites in the late 1990s.
First open source contribution to the smart_todo gem, adding support for a context attribute that can point to a GitHub issue. You can inspect the published diff via this 1.10.0 → 1.11.0 comparison.
Work on the transition of shop.app ecosystem to YugabyteDB, a distributed PostgreSQL-compatible database, as part of Shopify's global commerce infrastructure modernization. Read YugabyteDB x Shopify article for more details.

Deprecated

Octav made a company-wide reorg as part of a strategic pivot and I had to find my next adventure.

3.0.0 - Principal Software Developer @ Octav (2025-02 to 2025-07)

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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 🤓.
Knowledge in the crypto and DeFi space about L2s, block explorers, smart contracts (ABIs), DEXes, MEV (Maximal Extractable Value), flash loans, cross-chain bridges, AMMs, CLMMs, liquidity pools, lending, borrowing, staking, rewards on EVM-compatible chains and Solana. (Rugs and scams included! 🙁)
APIs and libraries: DeBank, DefiLlama, Etherscan, ethers, viem and many more!
Implementation of the Stader protocol in a forked version of the SonarWatch Portfolio project.
Migration of a GitHub repository that contained a single npm package to a monorepo with multiple packages using Turborepo and changeset.
Centralized GitHub Actions repository to reduce duplication across CI/CD workflows and improve maintainability.
Structured logging across services, enabling efficient log filtering and analysis via AWS CloudWatch Log Insights.

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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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.

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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)

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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.

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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)

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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.

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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)

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

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

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

0.1.0 - The Beginning (2001)

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