Christian Lavoie

Currently working on fostering the Montreal startup community, through providing my services to investors and entrepreneurs and helping bridge the gap between the two. I specialize in large scale software systems, from databases to real-time data processing.

Previously, I have spent a large chunk of my career working on large scale production systems, from NEC supercomputers and huge IRIX SMP machines at the Canadian Meteorological Center in Dorval to highly parallel clusters of off-the-shelf parts at McGill University's Biomedical Engineering Labs and at Google.

I have served as a DBA for MySQL and I have served as a the main sysadmin on projects using various Linux distributions: Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo. I have repeatedly proven being able to deal with highly sensitive, high financial impact projects and systems, at Google's scale.

I am interested academically in researching distributed systems and databases and probabilistic solutions to discrete optimization problems.

I currently organize the Montreal Perl Mongers group, the Haskellers-Montreal group and the Montreal Tech Leads monthly meetup.

Specialties: Large scale production clusters (multi-thousand machines), financially sensitive databases and production systems, supercomputers (hundreds to thousands of CPUs), message passing based distributed systems. Large database systems.

Routinely use: Haskell, Perl, C++, SQL, JavaScript.

Used Ruby, C, LISP, SML, C#, Scheme, BASIC, TCL/TK, Sawzall, Python and Java in the past for medium-to-large projects.

• Jeudis Clandestins

  Member
  • October 2011 to Present

• Montreal Tech Leads

  Organizer
  • January 2011 to Present

  The Montreal Tech Leads group is a loosely connected set of technical visionaries, leaders and high-impact individuals. Created to foster the startup and technical ecosystem in Montreal, we welcome members of all technical domains.

• Montreal Perl Mongers

  Chief Cat Herder
  • September 2010 to Present

  Perl programmers of Montreal monthly gathering. All programmers and sysadmins with connections to Perl are welcome! Currently meeting at the Benelux, every last Thursday of the month at 7pm.

• Haskellers Montreal

  Organizer
  • January 2013 to Present

  Bi-monthly meetup of Haskell programmers in Montreal, with discussions of new articles, new approaches and general camaraderie between functional programmers. Curious newcomers welcomed, old-timers welcomed, functional programmers playing well less advanced languages are welcomed too ;)

1. Databases
2. Backend
3. Software Architecture
4. Computer Science
5. Due Diligence
6. Software Design
7. Cloud Computing
8. Architecture
9. Haskell
10. MySQL
11. JavaScript
12. Perl
13. Linux
14. Distributed Systems
15. Apache
16. C++
17. Leadership Development
18. Unix
19. Tomcat
20. Software Development
21. Java
22. Python
23. PostgreSQL

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• English

  (Native or bilingual proficiency)

• French

  (Native or bilingual proficiency)

• Spanish

  (Elementary proficiency)

Websites:

• Company Website

Interests:

Mission critical database engines, high performance data processing, general large scale computer system craftsmanship

Groups and Associations:

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  C++ Professionals
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  CS Games
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  Debian Administrator
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  DevOps at Scale
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  Googlers & Xooglers
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  Haskell Enthusiasts
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  High Scalability Architecture Design
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  Large-Scale Production Engineering
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  McGill University Alumni
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  Montreal - Business Startup
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  Montreal Crowdsourcing & Crowdfunding for Entrepreneurs & Investors
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  Perl
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  PostgreSQL Professionals
• 
  Québec Ouvert
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  Xoogler