Christian Droulers

christian@droulers.me

Christian Droulers (LinkedIn, GitHub)

Senior Software and Web developer: HealthTech, SaaS.

Work experience

• Tech Lead - Senior Software Developer (January 2026 - ...)

  Vitr.ai (AI HealthTech). Granby, Québec

  • Lead a growing team of software developers through company scale-up.
  • Interview and hire new team members.
  • Document, review and implement architecture changes required by company changes and new larger-scale clients.
  • Explore and use modern AI tools to enhance the development lifecycle.
  • All existing responsibilities for Senior Full-Stack Developer below.

• Senior Software Developer (May 2025 - January 2026)

  Vitr.ai (AI HealthTech). Granby, Québec

  • Develop, test, maintain and support backend and frontend apps.
  • Enhance developer experience practices in legacy and new codebases.
  • Migrate legacy endpoints to modern stack while maintaining features, performance and stability.
  • Document existing features through tests and API specs (OpenApi).
  • Collaborate with the AI team to develop a new version of our health orientation tool.
  • Code review, design reviews and architecture reviews.
  • Technological environment: NodeJS / JavaScript / TypeScript, PostgreSQL, VueJS, Jest, Playwright, Vitest, Claude Code

• Senior Software Developer (November 2024 - May 2025)

  Coveo (AI Search). Québec, Québec

  • Develop, test, maintain and support Web Crawling code as well as frontend code.
  • Participate in multi team initiatives to enhance code quality and performance.
  • Suggest new ways of testing for higher code quality and higher confidence in test code.
  • Technological environment: C# / .NET Core / VS2022+, Sentry, GraphQL, TypeScript/JavaScript, React, Jest, Playwright.

• Software Developer Team Lead (October 2023 - November 2024)

  Akinox (HealthTech). Lévis, Québec

  • Manage existing team through performance reviews and one on one feedback.
  • Maintain code quality through upfront design reviews, code reviews and story documentation.
  • Scrum Master responsibilities: ceremony animation, demo, client meetings.
  • All existing responsibilities for Software Developer below.

• Lead Software Architect and Software Developer (March 2016 - October 2023)

  Akinox (HealthTech). Lévis, Québec

  • Technology advisor through the expansion of the company from 7 employees to 100. Onboarding of multiple new employees and consultants.
  • Expand existing software to a province wide deployment while building new features for governmental client.
  • Investigation and enhancement related to performance issues.
  • Collaborate with multiple internal and external teams on software, testing and deployment issues.
  • Analyse and implement client needs using modern software techniques such as testing, CI and infrastructure as code.
  • Review code within the team, mentor junior and senior developers.
  • Implement tests at all layers. Unit testing, Integration testing, API testing, End-to-End testing.
  • Design and implement distributed messaging between multiple services.
  • Software Stewardship for multiple internal projects: UI Kit, Telemetry collection, Docker-compose project spanning multiple micro-services, Company wide knowledge sharing guild.
  • Explore new technologies and build new features while supporting a legacy product.
  • Evolve multiple applications from on-premise to Cloud based.
  • Manage the entirety of applications' development process.
  • Research and development around offline applications, especially in low bandwidth regions.
  • Technological environment: C# / .NET Core / VS2020+, GraphQL, TypeScript/JavaScript, React, Apollo, Jest, TestCafé, Docker, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, OpenTelemetry, Elastic Search, Grafana, OpenID Connect / OAuth.

• Software Developer (May 2014 - March 2016)

  Vooban (Software Consulting). Québec, Québec

  • Analyze, develop and maintain a client's multiple products.
  • Enhance code quality with constant refactoring and unit testing.
  • Prototype product and create an MVP in a short timeframe.
  • Build and maintain a large suite of systems tests with Specflow and Selenium.
  • Technological environment: Microsoft Visual Studio 2012/2013, C#, asp.NET MVC / WEB API, CSS3, HTML5, TypeScript, NodeJS, ReactJS/Flux.

• Software Architect (August 2013 - March 2014)

  SherWeb (SaaS Hosting). Sherbrooke, Québec

  • Establish global architecture throughout all software. Establish specific software architecture.
  • Mentoring and coaching of developers and teams with new and old technologies.
  • Create prototypes to evaluate new technologies before choosing and implementing one.
  • Build a control panel for partners to manage billing, service assignement and data reporting using new technologies.

• Analyst-Programmer (June 2012 - July 2013)

  SherWeb (SaaS Hosting). Sherbrooke, Québec

  • Analyse and develop a distributed control panel to manage multiple hosting sites, multiple versions of Exchange and other services.

• Web developer, Analyst-Programmer, cofounder (June 2011 - June 2012)

  Invup. Boston, Massachussets

• Web developer, Analyst-Programmer (April 2008 - June 2011)

  SherWeb (SaaS Hosting). Sherbrooke, Québec

• Web developer (june 2007, work from home from September 2007 to April 2008)

  CRIFPE, Université de Montréal. Montréal, Québec

Technical skills

• Programming

  Languages: C#, TypeScript, JavaScript (NodeJS), Powershell, Java, C/C++, Python, Ruby, PL/SQL, T-SQL.

  Frameworks: React, VueJS, EFCore, OpenApi, Vite, WPF, WCF, WF, asp.NET MVC / WEB API, LINQ, WebPack

• Web technologies

  React, VueJS, OpenApi, GraphQL, Apollo, Vite, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, service workers, npm, jQuery, RequireJS, Backbone.js, Knockout.js, AJAX, SignalR, asp.NET, IIS6/7/8, Apache 2.0, NGINX, W3C standards, XML.

• Databases

  PostGreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, MongoDB, Redis, SQLite, CouchDB

• Operating systems

  Windows, Mac OSX, Ubuntu, Debian, RedHat, CentOS

• Tools

  Visual Studio, Rider, Visual Studio Code, Neovim, Docker, Git, Mercurial, Subversion, CI/CD, NUnit, xUnit, Selenium, Specflow, Testcafé, Playwright, Claude Code, AI Skills

• Miscellaneous

  MassTransit, RabbitMQ, Service Bus for Windows Server, GCP, Azure, AWS

  OpenTelemetry, Elastic Search, Honeycomb, Microsoft Exchange, Active Directory

Projects

• Puzzle game in the browser.
• API Wrapper for an online donation provider.
• Complete list (with code!)

Education

• Computer Sciences degree (2004 - 2007)

  • Cégep du Vieux Montréal. Montréal, Québec

Hobbies and passions

• Offroad motorcycling
• Reading
• Sports: Parkour, soccer, CrossFit, snowboard, biking.