Un peu about me

Hi! I'm Maude (pronounced "mode").

I'm a principal engineer at GitHub.

Formerly, I was a Senior Staff Engineer at Slack where I founded and led the backend performance infrastructure team 🚀.

At Slack, I was responsible for large-scale load test tooling, performance regression monitoring, and successfully onboarding the world's largest companies to the product. For nearly 8 years, I helped the product scale from just 60,000 users per team to over 2 million 📈.

When I don't have my nose in a flamegraph, you can find me building strong, empathetic engineering cultures 👯‍♀️.

In October 2020, I published Refactoring at Scale with O'Reilly Media, a blueprint for how technical leaders can successfully navigate large, complex refactors 📕.

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I was born in Drummondville, QC to a (very) French-speaking family. I didn't speak a lick of English until we moved to southern New Hampshire the summer before I started the second grade 🇨🇦.

I returned to Quebec to study computer science at McGill University in Montréal in the fall of 2011 👩🏻‍💻.

Post-graduation, I moved to New York City, where I worked as a frontend engineer at Rent the Runway for a little over a year 🗽.

In September 2016, I moved to San Francisco to start a new job at Slack 🌁.

Four years later, my husband and I fully embraced remote work, moving back to the east coast to be closer to family. We now live in New Hampshire in a cozy house with a big yard and a wild toddler 🏡.