Olivier Buffon

Olivier Buffon

Senior developer and independent consultant in Québec City

Available from January 2027

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Technologies

  • Ruby on Rails
  • Hotwire
  • ViewComponent
  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • Redis
  • Sidekiq
  • GraphQL
  • Elixir and Phoenix
  • Flutter
  • Mistral AI
  • coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and Pi)

Experience

Scribee

Senior full stack developer, full-time, November 2025 to December 2026

Built a French e-invoicing platform from zero with Ruby on Rails, MySQL, ERB, ViewComponent and Hotwire; iOS and Android apps in Flutter; Mistral AI for OCR and document processing; designed the team's agentic workflow. Scribee was approved as a Plateforme Agréée par l'État within one week of filing.

iDocus

Senior developer, full-time, October 2024 to November 2025

Modernized the UI and the backend of a pre-accounting solution, and started its component library.

Homeric

Co-founder, then on-demand technical advisor, since November 2021

Built the backend from day one, in Ruby on Rails with PostgreSQL and GraphQL.

Chronogolf

First developer, August 2014 to November 2018

Designed the backend in Ruby on Rails, with PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Redis and Sidekiq, from zero to hundreds of thousands of daily users; built the team as the company grew from 5 to 45+ people, including 10 developers. Chronogolf was later acquired by Lightspeed.

Thales Avionics

First job, August 2008

Other engagements

  • Mirego: the Canadiens de Montréal mobile app backend in Elixir and Phoenix, vHub in Elixir, Phoenix and React, and donation-based funding for La Presse
  • Petal: backend developer in Ruby on Rails on a care platform
  • OpenFleet: Elixir
  • Neatops
  • Potloc
  • AdGear
  • Jesta Digital
  • Avo: open-source contribution, the TipTap rich text editor

Education

SUPINFO

Master's degree in computer science, 2007 to 2012

Languages

French and English