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Jean-Philippe Melanson

Fractional CTO · Senior software engineer

Part-time · remote from Québec · travel when it matters

Contact

Skills

Ship
TypeScript · React · Next.js · React Native · Postgres · Supabase · AWS · CI/CD · IaC
Lead
System design · architecture reviews · roadmap · mentoring · working directly with CEOs and product
Since 2024
AI-assisted development — coding agents, MCP, automated review — and hardening AI-generated code for production

Engagement formats

  • Fractional CTO — 1 to 2 days a week
  • Lead or senior IC on a project — fixed scope or a quarter
  • One-off: architecture review, codebase audit, the migration everyone's afraid of

Languages

  • French (native)
  • English

In short

I'm the engineer companies hand the critical path to. In 15 years I've been technical co-founder of a real-estate platform, the de-facto backend owner at a $200M-valuation delivery startup, a consultant inside Ticketmaster's live-event systems, and a senior engineer on the data protocol that shipped its token launch to a platform of a million users. I work autonomously, ship on the date I gave you, and tell you the truth about scope, risk and cost — early. Since 2024 I ship with AI coding agents and set teams up to do the same.

How I work

Straight answers
Estimates, risks and bad news arrive early and in plain language.
Dates hold
If I committed to Friday, it ships Friday.
Autonomy by default
Give me the goal and the constraints; I bring the plan, the code and the ops.

Selected outcomes

  • doormath.ca — built the company's technical foundation as technical co-founder. Architecture, product and infrastructure from zero to MVP; onboarded the first 10–20 paying customers.
  • Sapien — shipped the Proof of Quality protocol from design to token launch (Aug 2025). Incentives, quality control, token distribution and goal-based rewards, in a team of eight senior engineers, on a platform that grew past 1M contributors and 100M tasks.
  • Ticketmaster — owned the worst incident on the NFL admission platform. Live database corruption was showing wrong entry status at games; found the bug, reconciled production data, shipped the fix.
  • CRIUCPQ — led development of a scientific app for a research hospital, from two native apps to one React Native codebase and the web. Roughly halved the yearly maintenance effort: one language, one release train, both stores plus web.
  • FastAF — carried the backend and end-to-end delivery of core commerce and crypto-payment features. Thousands of transactions a day; DevOps and QA automation that cut support tickets ~40% and tripled deploy frequency.

Experience

Senior Software Engineer

Sapien.io · Remote

2024-09 – present

  • Designed and shipped the Proof of Quality protocol and application from scratch — incentives and quality-control mechanics for AI training-data labelling — through the August 2025 token launch.
  • Built token distribution and goal-based reward mechanisms integrated with the protocol, enabling airdrops and rewarding high-quality work.
  • Set up AI-agent-driven development for the team: automations around code quality, reporting and a product-first backlog; mentored engineers on the practice.
  • Built an email template engine that halved email development time.

Technical Co-founder

doormath.ca · Remote

2023-04 – 2024-09

  • Owned the entire technical foundation of a real-estate platform — instant home valuations and market analytics — in Next.js, React, TypeScript and Supabase/Postgres.
  • Defined product vision and roadmap with the CEO; coordinated UX designers and ML engineers to ship advanced features.
  • Delivered 15+ core features — automated appraisals, subscriptions, broker portal, listings, auctions, analytics — enabling launch and the first paying customers.
  • Set up production infrastructure: auth, automated QA, CI/CD, CDN and image optimisation; 99.9% uptime and sub-2 s page loads. Left when the company could not close its next round.

Software Engineer — Contract

CRIUCPQ (research hospital) · Remote · Québec City

2021-09 – present

  • Hired to lead development of a scientific respiratory-therapy app used by clinicians, educators and students; own the product end to end since.
  • Consolidated two native iOS/Android apps into one React Native codebase, roughly halving yearly maintenance effort; rebuilt the recommendations algorithm to updated medical guidelines.
  • Took the tool to the web (ventilo.ca) on turnkey cloud infrastructure — CDN, automated deploys, analytics — at 99.9% uptime; run app-store operations and compliance for both apps.

Software Engineer

FastAF Technologies · Remote

2020-05 – 2023-01

  • Carried end-to-end development of core commerce features — cart, checkout, loyalty, discounts, inventory, recommendations — in Rails and React Native/TypeScript, processing thousands of transactions daily.
  • Built the crypto payment infrastructure: token payments, wallet connectivity and fiat on/off-ramps.
  • Established DevOps and QA automation that cut support tickets by 40% and tripled deployment frequency.
  • Acted as technical advisor to product and executive leadership.

Software Engineer — Consultant

Ticketmaster · Québec City, QC

2018-04 – 2020-05

  • Built and operated the Entry and Redeem systems — the admission platform for NFL games — as microservices in Java and Go on AWS, with high availability and fault tolerance.
  • Owned the platform's worst incident: live database corruption showing wrong entry status. Found the bug, reconciled production data, shipped the fix.
  • Designed and executed disaster-recovery strategies for cloud-hosted applications: RPO under 1 hour, RTO under 4 hours.
  • Wrote cloud governance frameworks — infrastructure standards, security, cost, operations — adopted across engineering teams.

Software Engineer — Consultant

Asurion · Remote

2017-10 – 2018-03

  • Built responsive React interfaces that improved engagement and streamlined customer workflows.
  • Introduced unit, integration and end-to-end testing that cut production bugs by 50%.

Software Engineer — Consultant

Ticketmaster · Québec City, QC

2016-10 – 2017-10

  • Built React interfaces for event-code redemption used across millions of ticket transactions.
  • Drove frontend and backend architecture decisions: React state patterns and Java microservices.

Software Engineer

Balihoo · Boise, ID

2014-07 – 2016-05

  • Engineered a campaign-automation system on AWS orchestrating multi-channel marketing across thousands of locations, cutting manual effort by 80%.
  • Built the marketing dashboard and the data pipelines behind it — millions of data points a day.

Software Engineer

Ticketmaster · Québec City, QC

2011-06 – 2014-06

  • Platform team: low-level libraries for ticket on-sales that held under peak-demand events.
  • Established production readiness — monitoring, observability, centralised logging, automated releases — cutting incident response time by 70%.
  • Built developer tooling and a Docker-based local environment that took onboarding from weeks to days.

Software Engineer

Université Laval · Québec City, QC

2008-05 – 2011-05

  • Full-stack development on an e-learning platform serving thousands of students; designed and built the quiz module from scratch.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) — Information Technology

École de technologie supérieure

2004-09 – 2008-09

  • Laboratory assistant: e-commerce & transactional application development
  • NSERC Research Award: image-based search with Oracle DB

Side project

CrownBTC A no-fluff bitcoin price, portfolio and news app for iPhone, with widgets. Built and shipped solo, from idea to the App Store. App Store