Guillaume Thibault
Software Engineer | Full-Stack, AI Systems, Developer Tools
Experience
Unity Technologies
Software Developer
Montreal
Jul 2025 - Current
- Designing and shipping Go APIs powering cloud content delivery and targeting systems for large game studios, with performance requirements on the order of ~100k requests/second
- Set up and managed Kubernetes-based production environments across GCP and AWS, handling deployments, scaling, and infrastructure reliability
- Building C# CLI and SDK tooling that lets customers manage runtime content, targeting rules, and live configuration safely at scale with Config As Code
Ploomber (YC W22)
Contractor - Software Engineer
Remote - New York
Jul 2024 - Jul 2025
- Built and shipped full-stack features across a React/TypeScript frontend and Python backend for a cloud deployment platform for data applications
- Built an agentic AI debugging harness that autonomously diagnosed failed deployments, modified repositories, rebuilt and redeployed applications in a sandbox, and used execution feedback to converge on fixes, reducing support tickets by 80%.
Flojoy
Software Engineer
Montreal, Canada
Jan 2024 - May 2024
- Built full-stack workflow and test automation product features for an open-source alternative to TestStand, with low-code block which could be link together to create automated workflow
- Worked across product, UI/UX, and engineering to support enterprise trials in medical robotics, defense, and manufacturing environments
- Partnered with the founder on customer-facing work, helping translate real buyer needs into product direction during a high-speed pivot
Boreal Ventures - Venture Capitalist
Analyst Seed Stage
Montreal, Canada
Apr 2023 - Dec 2023
- Built an internal AI knowledge platform that records meetings, generates summaries, indexes conversations in a vector database for semantic search, and syncs with external CRMs. An open-source version is available as Watson on my GitHub
- Conducted in-depth market analysis across diverse technical domains including AI, medical devices, SaaS and developed investment return models and investment memoranda
Tesla
Software Engineer Intern
Palo Alto, California, US
Summer - 2022
- Reverse engineering of a Product Data Modeller (3D Experience) to programmatically access data from a Java GRPC microservice & Refactoring of a Java microservice
Skills
Programming
Go, Python, TypeScript, React, C#, JavaScript, Rust, SQL, Linux
Infrastructure
Kubernetes, GCP, AWS, Terraform, Docker, CI/CD, Observability
Language
French, English
Education
Polytechnique Montreal
B.S Software Engineering
Montreal, Canada
2018 - 2021
- Extra Minor in finance with a focus on sustainable investment & innovation; Enriched by 3 master courses and two international seminars in Europe and Japan
- Internship - Software Engieer Intern: Pratt & Whitney, Innocap, Desjardins
Polytechnique Montreal
Master in Artificial Intelligence
Montreal, Canada
2021 - 2023
- Project was done with a pension fund to introduce methods for analyzing sentiment in a currency hedging model while ensuring explainability of results
- Presented at Tokyo Tech University in Japan
Extracurricular
Data Focus Hackathon
Organizer
Polytechnique Montreal
- Promoted data science through the organization of the first two editions of the Polytechnique data science hackathon
- More than 50 participants in graduate study per edition with more than 8 corporate sponsors
Projects
- Duckietown: autonomous vehicle stack for perception, planning, and control from simulation to real-world driving
- latent.host: self-managed infrastructure with Docker, k8s, Tailscale, and more
- Additional work in graphics, terminal UIs, and experimental developer tools - more at https://latent.blog/projects
Interests Outside Work
- Gym, Cars, Cooking and Eating, Video Games (Forza and Age of Empires II) and learning more about computers