Career Changelog

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.

🔗8.0.0 - Staff Software Developer @ Shopify (2025 to 2026)

🔗Added

• Member of shop.app Buyer Acquisition (growth) team, focused on the Shop Cash domain.
• First open source contribution to the smart_todo gem, adding support for a context attribute referencing GitHub issues (see diff).
• Contribution to the transition of the shop.app ecosystem to YugabyteDB, including ownership of migration for one of the highest QPS tables (top 20).
• Technical design and implementation of an affiliate payout program in partnership with impact.com.
• Use of Claude Code in daily development workflows.
  • Creation of Claude Commands to automate repetitive tasks.
  • Development of Claude Skills to encode domain-specific knowledge.
  • Development of a Claude skill for ATC (Air Traffic Controller) support rotation, leveraging multiple Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations to collect data and guide decisions based on team runbooks.
  • Motivated the creation of RangeLink and my-claude-skills.
• Use of Ruby; ramped up quickly through The Pragmatic Studio's Ruby Programming course.
• Use of Ruby on Rails and related ecosystem:
  • ActiveRecord
  • ActiveJob
  • Sidekiq
  • Maintenance Tasks
• Use of RuboCop for code style enforcement.
• Use of Sorbet, RBS, and inline RBS for type checking.
• Use of Redis.
• Use of GraphQL.
• Use of Docusaurus for internal documentation.
• Use of Graphite.
• Use of Buildkite.
• Use of Google Cloud Platform (BigQuery being the one I used the most).

🔗Deprecated

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

🔗7.0.0 - Principal Software Developer @ Octav (2025)

🔗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 🤓.
• 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.
• Use of Terraform.
• Use of Docker image layers to provide seed data to dev and test environments.
• Use of BullMQ.
• Use of Express.
• Use of Sequelize.
• Use of Sentry.
• Use of CodeRabbit.

🔗Deprecated

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

🔗6.2.0 - Senior Staff Developer @ Flexport (2023 to 2024)

🔗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.

🔗6.1.0 - Senior Staff Developer @ Shopify Logistics (2022 to 2023)

🔗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.

🔗6.0.0 - Senior Developer @ Deliverr (2021 to 2022)

🔗Added

• 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' experience 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.
• Use of TSOA; shout-out to Gal Tidhar.
• Use of Maxwell as our change data capture (CDC) solution.
• Use of more AWS components: Kinesis Data Streams, Parameter Store.
• Use of Zod.
• Use of Koa.
• Use of esbuild.
• Use of split.io.

🔗5.0.0 - Tech Lead @ SSENSE (2019 to 2021)

🔗Added

• Project to peel-off the order management system (OMS) out of the company's monolith to its own DDD domain/microservices.
• 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.
• Full-stack contributions to the product information management (PIM) system.
• Winner of Hackathon 2019 with my idea to improve the onboarding process of new hires.
• Knowledge in the luxury e-commerce industry, distributed order management systems (OMS) and product information management (PIM).
• Use of TypeScript and Node.js; shout-out to Yannick Cordinier.
• Use of GitHub Copilot as my favourite coding buddy.
• 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 with deployments to AWS.
• Use of more AWS components: DynamoDB, Lambda, Step Functions, API Gateway.
• Use of OpenAPI Specification to officialize our contracts; shout-out to Mário Bittencourt for his article.
• Use of BPMN (Business Process Model and Notation).
• Use of Docker and Docker Compose.
• Use of inversify.
• Use of Middy.
• Use of Python.
• Use of React.
• Use of Redux.
• Use of LaunchDarkly.

🔗Changed

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

🔗4.0.0 - Senior Developer @ Zola (2019)

🔗Added

• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certification issued on 2019-04-19.
• Knowledge in the wedding and event planning industry.
• Knowledge in the e-commerce industry.
• Use of Amazon Web Services (AWS) (mainly S3, SNS, SQS).
• Use of microservices.
• Use of trunk-based development.
• Use of feature flags.
• Use of Ansible.
• Use of Guice.

🔗Changed

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

🔗3.0.0 - Architect @ AFS Technologies (2011 to 2018)

🔗Added

• Scrum Master certification.
• Use of Agile methodologies.
• Skills to develop SaaS solutions.
• Building of REST APIs.
• Knowledge in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry.
• Use of Java, Spring framework, Hibernate, Mockito.
• 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.

🔗Changed

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

🔗2.0.0 - Senior Developer @ Vidéotron (2006 to 2011)

🔗Added

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

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

🔗Added

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

🔗0.1.0 - The Beginning (2001)

🔗Added

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