Gérald Barré

Senior Software Engineer, Platform Engineering @Workleap

Montréal, CA

Driving the improvement of developer productivity, software quality, and platform adoption across the company through customer-centric engineering, tooling, and technical leadership. Focused on reducing friction in the development process, enabling teams to deliver faster, more reliably, and with greater confidence.# Developer Productivity & Inner-Source Enablement- Led the migration from Azure DevOps to GitHub- Established the company’s Developer Portal using Cortex, configuring scorecards and quality baselines to support compliance, operational excellence, and inner-source collaboration- Created golden paths and reference implementations (e.g, Open API server validation and client generation, load testing, test automation) to accelerate adoption of best practices across services and teams- Conducted user interviews and regularly engaged with internal teams to uncover friction points, improve platform adoption, and align tooling with real-world needs.# Quality, Testing & Observability- Built end-to-end testing libraries to help teams validate complex microservice interactions, increasing system confidence and delivery stability- Improved the company-wide coding standards, integrating static analysis tools to proactively catch issues and promote maintainable code- Introduced and championed practices to enhance test reliability and reduce regressions across workflows.# Mentorship & Knowledge Sharing- Actively mentor junior developers, supporting their growth in areas such as architecture, testing strategies, and engineering best practices- Engage in pair programming and collaborative design reviews to foster knowledge transfer and team alignment- Speaker at internal and external tech meetups, sharing insights on tooling, developer experience, and platform engineering.

EPITA: Engineering school in Computer Intelligence

Engineering Master’s Degree

University of Staffordshire

Mathematics and Computer Science