Victor standing by the turquoise water of Lake Louise, with forested mountains and a glacier behind him

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Victor Pierre

I build backend systems that have to be right: payments, identity and commerce, mostly in Go.

$ cat ~/.profile
rolebackend engineer
langgo, mostly
since2013
basedamsterdam
nowsenior software engineer at gain
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01 story

Hey there ๐Ÿ‘‹

I’m Victor, a software engineer who has built software since 2013, with a focus on backend systems. I gravitate toward the problems that have to be right: code that holds up under load and still makes sense to whoever reads it next.

I’ve spent that time across commerce, identity, payments, and privacy, on systems where mistakes are costly: checkout flows, entitlement management, and payment services handling onboarding, reconciliation, chargebacks, and fraud. A lot of it was at companies growing fast and rebuilding as they went, which taught me to move quickly without leaving a mess for the next person to clean up.

These days I work mostly in Go and cloud-native infrastructure, on backend systems that need to stay up. I love open source, and I try to build things that respect the people on the other side of them, private and secure by default.

Outside of engineering, I shoot photos. You can see them on my other website

02 stack

Languages
Go, Bash, JavaScript
Data
PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, BigQuery, Redis
Infrastructure
Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, GCP
Observability and CI
Prometheus, Grafana, GitHub Actions

03 work

  1. 2026 โ€“ now GainSenior Software Engineer Amsterdam
  2. 2025 โ€“ 2026 UnitySenior Software Engineer II Montreal
  3. 2024 โ€“ 2025 AlanSenior Software Engineer Montreal
  4. 2020 โ€“ 2024 UnitySenior Software Engineer Montreal
  5. 2018 โ€“ 2020 Lightspeed CommerceSoftware Engineer Montreal
  6. 2017 โ€“ 2018 Design ShoppTeam Lead Montreal
  7. 2013 โ€“ 2017 Design ShoppProgrammer Analyst Montreal
  8. 2013 IndependentWeb Developer Montreal
  9. 2012 EastLinkCRM Developer - Work Term Halifax

04 elsewhere