Full-Stack Software Engineer & Solutions Architect
I design, build and run multi-tenant SaaS platforms for regulated data — and the AWS infrastructure they run on. AI-assisted development is my default workflow, not an experiment.
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About
My journey
I've been shipping software for about twenty years. I started out on my own — building, selling and supporting an events product with online ticketing and payments — then spent agency years on a high-traffic news API and e-commerce storefronts. Since 2013 I've been at Optania, technical lead and solution architect across the company's products: backends built from scratch in Laravel, single-page apps in React and TypeScript, and the AWS infrastructure underneath it all.
My years at Optania taught me what a greenfield project never could: what a long-lived application really costs — and how to keep that cost under control. On a ten-plus-year codebase, speed is something you maintain: framework and stack upgrades done continuously instead of as catch-up projects, a test suite that makes every refactor safe, static analysis that keeps debt from settling in. That's what has let us keep the stack current — and keep shipping fast, more than a decade in.
The other half of my work is speed. I use AI-assisted tooling as my default workflow — not to write code I don't understand, but to compress the distance between an idea and a working system. The products I've shipped on my own — Zelbee on the App Store and LOAMAP — are what that looks like in practice.
Everything I run holds regulated data — clinical records, student records — so privacy and security come before features.
What drives me
- Problems I haven't solved before. That's where I do my best work — and I'm always up for a new one.
- Systems people depend on: multi-tenant platforms, regulated data, software where correctness isn't optional.
- Compressing the distance between an idea and something running — AI-assisted workflows, twenty years of judgment.
- Shipping. A product in users' hands beats a perfect plan every time.
- Passing it on. Mentoring teammates into new skills and technologies is part of how I lead.
Technical expertise
Backend & Infrastructure
- Laravel & PHP
- MySQL & database design
- Redis & queues
- AWS (ECS, S3, Step Functions)
- Docker & containerization
- CI/CD & continuous deployment
- Infrastructure as code — CloudFormation
- Vercel & Cloudflare (Workers, Pages)
Frontend & Product
- Next.js & React
- Vue.js & TypeScript
- Tailwind CSS
- Tauri desktop apps
- Testing — PHPUnit, Pest, Behat
AI & Automation
- AI-assisted development
- Coding agents & MCP
- Chatbot development
- n8n workflow automation
- LLM API integrations
- Serverless AI pipelines
Hands in the dirt
Since 2022 I've served on the board of Vélo Saguenay, and since 2025 on the board of Mont Bélu — two organizations behind the region's mountain biking and its winter ski and snowboard operations. I've been volunteering for years, and I like getting my hands dirty as much as sitting at the table: trail building, maintenance days, on-the-ground operations. Designing a trail that drains well and ages well is surprisingly close to designing software that lasts.
Maxime Beaudoin
Full-Stack Software Engineer & Solutions Architect
Québec, Canada
Quick stats
- Years shipping software
- 20+
- Years at Optania
- 13
- Years on one platform
- 11
Interests
How I work
“Optimize for what code costs to live with, not how fast you can write it. Use AI to move at the speed of an idea — and twenty years of judgment to decide which ideas deserve it. Treat privacy and security as the ground you build on, not features you add later.”
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Highlights
Ground up
AWS infrastructure
The entire estate behind Optania's products — auto-scaling ECS, load balancing, AWS Backup in compliance mode, infrastructure as code with CloudFormation — designed, automated and operated practically alone.
Zero downtime
Continuous delivery
Built the entire delivery pipeline: CircleCI through to auto-scaling AWS ECS, containerized, with releases that never take the platform down.
Since 2015
Platform stewardship
Lead contributor on the API behind Psylio — clinical records, scheduling and billing for health and education professionals across Québec.
End to end
DevOps & quality ownership
The CI/CD pipeline the team ships through: continuous deployment, automated code review, static analysis with PHPStan and CodeSniffer, and a containerized development environment.
In the wild
AI in production
Built a psychosocial-support chatbot, contributed to Ali — Optania's AI assistant for Québec college students — and co-designed a serverless AI pipeline on AWS Step Functions with Optania's AI team.
Solo
Shipping instinct
Products shipped on my own outside work — Zelbee on the App Store and LOAMAP — from idea to users, no team.
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Projects
Professional work
Platform
Psylio
Practice-management platform health and education professionals across Québec use for clinical records, scheduling and billing — deployed in school service centres across the province. Lead contributor since it went live in 2015.
Infrastructure
AWS Infrastructure & DevOps
The AWS estate Optania's products run on — auto-scaling ECS, load balancing, AWS Backup in compliance mode — with infrastructure creation automated through CloudFormation and a continuous-delivery pipeline from CircleCI to AWS. Designed, built and operated practically single-handedly.
Things I build for fun
LOAMAP
Gives outdoor recreation centres a branded, official interactive map of their trails. Visitors scan a QR code and get offline GPS navigation — no app, no account — with difficulty, distance, elevation, points of interest, emergency exits and obstacle reporting.
Zelbee
iOS app that makes waste-collection schedules simple and reliable: a reminder the evening before, another to bring the bins back in, Home Screen widgets, calendar sync and multiple addresses. Local-first — data stays on the device.
Repos & experiments
api-response
PHP package for consistent API responses, built on Fractal, for Laravel and Lumen. Over a million downloads, taken to a stable 1.0.
InboxInsights
Mood analytics where email is the interface: daily entries arrive by email and GPT-4 turns them into wellness dashboards. Built for a dev.to challenge.
HomeWise AI
Turns a Zillow URL into a full property report with market insights and financial projections. Built for a dev.to challenge.
MTB Trail Building
Knowledge hub for mountain-bike trail building: tutorials, sustainable trail design, drainage solutions and tool guides.
Vélo Saguenay
Website for the regional mountain-bike non-profit — trail networks, volunteering and community info. I also serve on the board.
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Let's connect
A question about the work, a technical problem to talk through, or a trail worth riding — send a message. I read everything.
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