François Boulay

Biography

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François Boulay

I became a software developer 5 years ago after a start in customer-centric financial services — a field switch that rewarded creativity and critical thinking.

Notable achievements include growing and redesigning my employer's leading wealth management platform while cleaning up an extensive technical debt. I've also modernized custom enterprise authentication to OAuth 2.1 and shipped production dashboards, document browsers, questionnaires, and other core SaaS features.

Expertise

User-centric front-end design and development with Angular, React, Next.js, Tailwind CSS, and TypeScript.

Efficient, resilient backends with Node.js, Java, and Python — secure authentication, low latency, and high uptime.

Data-driven problem-solving with SQL and NoSQL databases like MySQL and MongoDB.

AI integration with large language models — chat, agents, RAG pipelines, and vector search.

Born and raised near Montreal in French-speaking Quebec, I grew up playing hockey and speaking English from a young age — opening doors into engineering spheres like leisure and aviation and feeding my passion for geography and history.

Recent travels made me fall in love with Europe — I am now B1 in Italian — and I stay committed to curiosity, building useful and beautiful products that help people and businesses grow, and a quality of life that is modest but second to none.